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"Come out swinging!"
"Come out swinging!"
After securing the majority in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the Democrats have vowed to launch investigations on a wide range of topics involving the administration, including Trump's alleged attempts to influence the ongoing Russia probe. The Republican president, who earlier warned of a "war-like posture" if his opponents continue to gang-up on him, stressed on Wednesday that he is ready to challenge this "harassment."
"If they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me," Trump told the New York Post. "I'm a counterpuncher and I will hit them so hard they'd never been hit like that."As a means of getting back at his opponents, Trump said he could declassify documents from Robert Mueller's probe, the public release of which was shelved on Presidential orders in September.
"I think that would help my campaign. If they want to play tough, I will do it. They will see how devastating those pages are," Trump stated, noting that it would be "more powerful" to release the documents when the new Congress takes over next year.
Comment: Trump may be holding certain cards that give him protection, such as the Russian probe documents, but will they save him from a deal between Michael Cohen and Robert Mueller?