During an appearance on CNN earlier in August, Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw pushed back on the numerous denunciations of the FBI that have been coming from Republican colleagues in Congress as well as Republican voters – calling these criticisms “crazy.”
Rep. Crenshaw’s comments regarding the FBI being called out came during his August 21st appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” where he and Jake Tapper discussed the rhetoric that has been going around in the wake of the August 8th FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
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The Texas Republican’s comments regarding the raid were fairly milk toast in some respects, asserting that the Justice Department is worthy of criticisms as to whether the raid pulled off was politically motivated.
However, when it came to some of the more intense criticism aimed at the FBI, Rep. Crenshaw claimed that most Republicans aren’t on board with things like defunding the FBI.
Tapper brought up some of the more intense criticisms that have been directed toward the FBI, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s August 8th post to Twitter that read, “Defund the FBI,” while linking those comments to recent incidents involving calls to violence against FBI agents.
“I do want to note that your criticism is fairly measured, I can’t say the same about every Republican in Congress, and you’ve been will to criticize them. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of your favorites, who called to defund the FBI after the Mar-a-Lago raid. Federal prosecutors have since charged a Pennsylvania man this week after he wrote on social media, ‘If you work for the FBI you deserve to die.’ Obviously that armed man tried to enter the FBI office in Ohio. There’s a Republican congressional candidate, Carl Paladino – endorsed by Elise Stefanik – who said that Attorney General Merrick Garland should probably be executed. I mean, that rhetoric sure bothers you.”
Rep. Crenshaw noddingly agreed with Tapper, claiming that the sort of rhetoric coming from Rep. Greene and other Republicans makes the GOP look like “extremist Democrats.”
“Oh yeah, it’s crazy, and it makes us seem like extremist Democrats. And so Marjorie and AOC can join the defund law enforcement club if they want, 99% of Republicans are not on that train. What we want is accountability, we want transparency, and the criticisms that we’re leveling against the FBI and the DOJ are fully warranted. It is not those criticisms that lead to a crazy person attacking the FBI.”
In the wake of the comments directed at Rep. Greene, the congresswoman fired back with a thread on Twitter lambasting Rep. Crenshaw for trying to compare calls to defund the police to calls for defunding the FBI.
“‘Conservative’ Dan Crenshaw runs to CNN to beg Democrat activists like Jake Tapper to take him seriously. Comparing our great men & women in local law enforcement who put their lives on the line to corrupt deep state FBI operatives like Peter Strozk & Lisa Page is shameful.”
This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on August 23, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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