“Oh yeah, it’s crazy,” Crenshaw responded when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked him about the GOP’s recent “State of the Union” rhetoric. Many in the GOP have portrayed the probe, which was linked to an investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents, as politically motivated. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) filed articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland and demanded FBI payback. Those requests have been met with condemnation by some in the Republican Party, drawing comparisons to the police savings movement pushed by progressive lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.). “Makes us look like extreme democrats, doesn’t it?” Crenshaw said Sunday. “And so Marjorie and AOC can join in paying off the law enforcement club if they want. Ninety-nine percent of Republicans are not on that train.” Despite distancing himself from those calls, Crenshaw on Sunday called for accountability and transparency from the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) after the investigation, saying it was “automatically political.” A federal judge last week signaled he was open to releasing a redacted version of the affidavit in support of the search warrant application, but the DOJ opposed the move, citing witness safety concerns. “The criticisms that we level against the FBI and the DOJ are fully justified,” Crenshaw told Tapper. “These are not the criticisms that lead a madman to attack the FBI.” Schiff is “encouraged” by Pence possibly testifying before the committee on Jan. 6. Vulnerable Arizona Senate Democrat Welcomes Biden to Campaign A gunman tried to break into the FBI’s Cincinnati field office in the days following the Mar-a-Lago investigation, and the intelligence community cited the incident in a recent alert about heightened threats to federal law enforcement. The FBI has arrested a Pennsylvania man after an investigation into allegedly threatening to kill agency personnel. “That’s completely wrong, but that’s not where 99 percent of Republicans are, of course,” Crenshaw told CNN.
