As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, GOP Splits Over Assailing FBI
https://news.yahoo.com/search-shows-trump-had-secret-144031362.html
Republicans struggled to come together on how to respond to the FBIs search of Mar-a-Lago as it emerged Friday that federal law enforcement officers had recovered top secret files from former President Donald Trumps Florida home.
They were divided over whether to attack the nations top law enforcement agencies and how aggressive to be in those attacks.
Publicly, Trumps allies continued an aggressive push to portray the former president as a political target while sending urgent-sounding fundraising appeals to supporters. But privately, some advisers around Trump, unsure about what the FBI might have recovered, began quietly cautioning fellow Republicans to dial down their statements.
On Capitol Hill, a group of conservative Republicans known as the House Freedom Caucus many of whom dined with Trump at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club Tuesday and denounced the FBI search as a sign that the Biden administration was turning the country into a banana republic canceled a news conference scheduled for Friday morning. They had planned to further attack the Department of Justice.
That decision, publicly attributed to a scheduling conflict, came after a gunmans attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati on Thursday afternoon and as more details emerged about Trumps possession of classified documents.
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FBI seized Trump's extortion files too. This Thread looks at that