We all know that congressional Republicans won’t want to investigate the suspicious stuff about Donald Trump, but what about the conspiracy theories he wants them to investigate? It looks like they’re not too interested in Trump’s repeated demands for an investigation of the voter fraud that he believes—without evidence or logic—made him lose the popular vote.
“We haven’t been discussing that,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said in an interview Wednesday with MSNBC’s Greta Van Susteren when asked whether Congress would join in.
“The president has 100,000 people at the Department of Justice and if he wants to have an investigation, have at it,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chair of one of the top House investigative committees, told CNN.
There are plenty of reasons for Republicans who are more interested in the future of the party than in one man’s ego to steer clear, as the Washington Post’s Amber Phillips details. But we’ll see how long they hold out if Trump decides to really press them on that—so far Trump is pretty much getting his way with congressional Republicans, even on things they’d previously opposed.