A handful of Republican governors criticize ‘outrageous rhetoric’ of them party colleagues in USA congress, who accused federal law enforcement officers of politicized attack on former President Donald Trump after executing a court-approved search warrant on its Florida home This week.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican, described attacks from party participants as “absurd” and “dangerous”, in a week in some Republicans compared the FBI to the Gestapo and collected off slogan: “Protect the FBI.”
Appeal to ABC News on On Sunday, Hogan described the comparisons of FBI in Nazi Germany secret police, made Florida Senator Rick Scott, as “very disturbing to me, this is outrageous rhetoric.”
He added: “It’s absurd and, you know, it’s dangerous,” especially after a gunman enraged by the raid was killed in Ohio when he tried to break into the FBI office. “There are threats to all over in place and loss of faith in our federal law enforcement agencies and our justice system it’s really serious problem for country.”
On Monday, FBI agents issued a search warrant for former presidential private members club and place of residence in South Florida with unsealed warrant later showing Trump under investigation for potential breach of Espionage law and obstacles of justice over his alleged mistreatment of secret documents.
Episode flared up conservative commentators and politicians still deeply committed former president and then attack on FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio on Thursday, which led to a six-hour armed confrontation that left shot by a lone shooter dead.
hogan, who Rumor has it he’s considering run for Republican presidential nomination in 2024, claimed that many of his colleagues in Washington “jumped to conclusions without any information what I think was wrong”.
He added that revelations in the unsealed warrant was of “serious concern” but investigators should provide additional information on content of seized documents.
Hogan’s comments were followed by those of Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. who appeared on CNN on Sunday and partly mirrored its Maryland counterpart.
“If the Republican Party party of supporting law enforcement, law enforcement includes the FBI,” Hutchinson former US Attorney and private practice lawyer said.
He added: “We need to pull back on passing judgment on them. … I have no doubt that higher UPS in the FBI has made mistakes, they do it, I’ve defended cases too, and I’ve seen wrong actions. But we can’t say that whenever they [FBI officers] walked in and made that search that they weren’t doing their job as law enforcement officers.”
Comments marked a growing split on extremist rhetoric of some republican party participants after the execution of search warrant. A lot of senior Senate Republicans have been largely silent in commemoration of unprecedented law enforcement actions, while others have emerged on conservative news channels supporting baseless accusations that the FBI planted evidence during the search.
Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, senior member on House Committee of Inquiry into the Events of January 6 attack on The US Capitol condemned her colleagues’ rhetoric as “nauseating”.
“I was ashamed to hear how the members of my party breach of integrity of FBI agents involved with recent searches at Mar-a-Lago.” – Cheney wrote on Thursday. “These are disgusting comments that put lives of patriotic public servants in risk”.
Her position was gradually mirrored by other House Republicans after the warrant was issued. made public on Friday.
Dan Crenshaw, a Republican congressman from Texas, announced this to Axios. on Saturday what slogans against The FBI “makes you look frivolous.” This was announced by a senior member of the National Security Committee, John Catko. website: “It’s not that you rush to judge on. … Everyone should take a deep breath.”
Meanwhile on On Sunday, the White House continued to refrain from comment. on search warrant. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly declined anwser the questions on case during the interview with ABC News citing USA justice departmental independence on law enforcement cases.
When the video is shown of Comments made Republican in the House of Representatives Elise Stefanik, a staunch supporter of Trump, who described the search as “complete abuse and abuse of power” by the FBI, Jean-Pierre is widely fired back.
She said, “Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is independent. This is what we believe in and this is what the president said. It’s not about politicizing anything. Is not true generally.”
Jean-Pierre added a reminder that the US Attorney general Merrick Garland was confirmed by the US Senate in bipartisan voteand that Trump appointed the FBI director Christopher Ray in his place in 2017.
