BREAKING🚨 White House just threatened Democrats: investigating Trump could be a CRIME. In a letter dated Monday, White House counsel Will Scharf told Rep. Robert Garcia, the Democrat set to chair the House Oversight Committee, that his planned probes "may cross the line into blatant criminality." Scharf added that issuing what he calls "unlawful subpoenas" "may warrant further investigation." The letter goes after Garcia's two-word message to Trump officials after Democrats won the House and Senate in last week's midterms: "Lawyer up." Scharf says the White House is "monitoring" what he calls "abusive and capricious threats" from Democratic lawmakers. Scharf mocked Garcia for describing his motives as "'gay' 'pettiness'" and for comparing himself to "a demonic clown," pointing to a podcast appearance and a post using an image from the movie "It." Garcia's agenda includes how Trump and his family have gotten richer since he returned to office, the handling of the Epstein investigation, ICE operations, the White House ballroom, and Trump's crypto dealings with envoy Steve Witkoff. "It appears Donald Trump has something to hide," Garcia said. "Congress' authority comes from Article I of the Constitution, not from the permission of the White House." The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the power to investigate is built into Congress's power to make laws. For decades, courts have refused to dig into individual lawmakers' motives. Attorneys pointed out that members of Congress are shielded by the Constitution's Speech and Debate Clause, and that obstructing a congressional investigation is what's actually a crime. Normally the Justice Department handles oversight fights with Congress. This threat came straight from the White House, days after Trump posted Saturday that he was "ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!" On Sunday, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, said he plans to investigate Democrats. He couldn't name a crime. Asked on CNN whether there was one, he said "it depends on what's said." His message to Trump's staff: "If you work in this administration, you have a lawyer." This administration has already tried to prosecute six Democratic lawmakers over a video urging troops to refuse illegal orders. Grand juries refused to indict them