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President Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democrats for what he called “threatening a lot of people” with impeachment and other punishment, days after they won control of both houses of Congress.

Getting into it: In a Truth Social post over the weekend, Trump accused Democrats of “extortion at the highest level” and called it a “criminal act,” but gave no evidence and never said which messages he meant. He said Democrats had sent “threatening letters” to innocent people and were going after his donors, and singled out Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, who said in a speech last month that she wanted young people to see working for the Trump administration as more trouble than it’s worth.

Trump added, “I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!”

Democrats have promised aggressive oversight once they take power in January, with Rep. Robert Garcia, expected to chair the House Oversight Committee, posting “LAWYER UP” on election night and vowing to investigate what he calls the “Trump crime family.”

Some lawmakers have already sent document requests, including about tech companies that donated to Trump’s White House ballroom, and some have floated impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Todd Blanche.

This all comes as AG Blanche said Sunday on CNN that Democrats were going beyond their oversight role and that charges were possible depending on what they said, but couldn’t point to a specific crime. He also told Fox News that anyone working in the administration would have him as their lawyer. Slotkin pushed back, saying people who didn’t break the law have nothing to worry about.