“With all of these threats going around, it would ultimately be great if the former president-who has always been a great supporter of law enforcement, has posed with a thousand police departments coast to coast-it would be great if he called for an end to the violent rhetoric against federal law enforcement, and in particular the FBI that was just doing their job,” Doocy said. “It would be great for everybody to tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI, because the FBI simply was doing what the DOJ asked them to do,” Doocy argued.ĭespite excusing Trump from any personal accountability for the spiraling threats to law enforcement, Doocy nevertheless thought the former president could somehow play a role in stopping the conflagration. The host said right-wingers incensed by the federal investigation into Trump should blame Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice, under whose aegis the FBI agents had ultimately acted when they executed the warrant. She also made reference to a bulletin the Department of Homeland Security and FBI sent to law enforcement agencies warning about the mounting threats in the wake of the raid, including a specific threat of FBI headquarters being targeted by a “dirty bomb.”ĭoocy also touched on the case of Ricky Shiffer, the armed Trump supporter who was shot dead last week after attempting to get into the FBI’s Cincinnati office. “They published their names, and so there’s doxing of them trying to find their address so that these people online are talking about, you know, going to their houses,” Earhardt said, adding, “We don’t support any of that.” On Monday’s Fox and Friends, Ainsley Earhardt called out Breitbart for doxing the two FBI agents who signed the warrant by publishing an un-redacted version of the paperwork. But instead of being appalled by the fact that there’s even a remote possibility that a former president’s actions could warrant such an investigation, hardcore Trump fans have instead turned on law enforcement with extreme rhetoric, amplified by the likes of Fox News. Some of the documents may even pertain to nuclear weapons, according to reports. Don’t blame the FBI.”Īfter authorities seized classified documents from Trump’s Florida mansion last week, the former president could face potential prosecution under the Espionage Act. “So many supporters of Donald Trump have used this opportunity to go against the FBI,” host Steve Doocy said. With rhetoric of civil war and armed rebellion against federal law enforcement spreading online like wildfire, Fox & Friends decided it was time to turn down the temperature Monday. FBI agents have been inundated with an unprecedented avalanche of threats after the bureau’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last week-which the former president was quick to brand a politically-motivated “witch-hunt.”
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