Since news broke that the corrupt F.B.I. had searched the private residence of President Trump on Monday night. With this, Top Republicans and prominent conservatives reacted with outrage to the news -vowing to investigate law enforcement agencies involved in the incident.
The anger was expressed by Republican lawmakers, Trump supporters, and even Americans who are not fans of the former president and his anticipated candidacy for presidency claiming that the raid on Monday night was politically motivated, and demanding answers. For more than a day after the search, the Justice Department has not offered an official explanation for why it carried out the search.
“I’ve seen enough,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement, “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” Calling for a “thorough and immediate explanation” of the search.
McCarthy continued with a warning, “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” alluding to the possibility of a legislative investigation into the current attorney general if Republicans win the House in the next November elections.
Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar. pic.twitter.com/dStAjnwbAT
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 9, 2022
Hunter Biden skates free while DOJ executes a political plot to destroy lives of political opponents. This is un-American and @Jim_Jordan led Judiciary Committee hearings in January can’t come soon enough!
— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) August 8, 2022
Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, urged Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray in an interview with Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham. “Answer our questions about this action today, which has never happened in American history.”
“What was on the warrant? What were you really doing? What were you looking for? Why not talk to President Trump and have him give the information you’re after? This is unbelievable,” Jordan said.
Referring to when the House reconvenes to vote on the $740 billion spending bill dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, “We deserve answers now, and this Friday would be a good time,” the Ohio congressman added.
On Tuesday regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s raid on President Trump’s Mar-A-Largo home, President Joe Biden ignored questions from reporters.
The day after agents searched the former president’s Florida home, the president was seen passing by reporters and dodging their questions.
As “God Bless America” is playing in the background, a reporter can be heard yelling to the president as he poses for a picture, “President Biden, what did Attorney General Merrick Garland tell you about the Trump raid?”
Reporter: “President Biden, what did Attorney General Garland tell you about the Trump raid?” pic.twitter.com/UnB1UZ34sm
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) August 9, 2022
“Did you know about it in advance?” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins can be heard questioning, as Biden leaves the room, without replying or halting, Biden strolls straight past Collins and a large group of other reporters while still grinning.
Biden walks past dozens of journalists, but refuses to address his own DOJ/FBI’s raid on President Trump’s home pic.twitter.com/1Ii4A0MzrB
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 9, 2022
Meanwhile, Fox News Host Dan Bongino compared the bureau’s unwillingness to prosecute Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden for actual wrongdoing while it repeatedly invents reasons to pursue Trump, telling Watters that the FBI has now lost complete credibility.
“The management of the FBI has now shredded any single shred, sliver of credibility this agency had left. Nobody will take them seriously from this point on,” Bongino said as per Western Journal. “It is over. You’ve heard the examples, [former Trump adviser Roger] Stone, [former Trump campaign manager Paul] Manafort, [former Trump attorney Michael] Cohen, over and over. Are they good guys? Are they bad guys? I don’t know. I don’t care. I don’t know them.
BREAKING: @dbongino goes off on the FBI Raid on Donald Trump:
“This is some Third World BULLSH*T” pic.twitter.com/2e9jryfVOi
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 8, 2022
“All I’m telling you is you cannot tell me we still live in a constitutional republic and not the freakin’ third world when you have Hillary Clinton paying foreign agents to interfere with an election. People lying under oath repeatedly. Hunter Biden doing crack on tape and what happens? Where are the federal agents? They’re not in Malibu. They’re not in Chappaqua. They’re in Mar-a-Lago.” Bongino continued as the outlet added.
“This is some third world garbage that happened tonight. And I’m telling you, the FBI management, here’s the solution. Last thing. We have now got to win in 2022. You have no choice now, folks. ‘Oh, we don’t like the swampy Republicans.’ I don’t like them either. Republicans may not be the solution to your problems, but Democrats are certainly the cause of all your problems right now. If there was ever a clarion call to remove your a** from the seat and go vote in 2022, this is it.”
In a long statement released on Monday, Trump disclosed the raid and criticized the FBI’s targeted and political activities.
“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump wrote. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”
Sources: Westernjournal, Inquirer, Abcnews