Many Republicans have sought to discredit the integrity of federal agencies that have investigated and charged the former president, marking another step away from the GOP’s longtime positioning.
, 2021, law enforcement officials are monitoring violent rhetoric in online forums and plans for gatherings by far-right extremists.At a rally Monday night in West Palm Beach, Fla., Kari Lake, a Trump ally who lost the Arizona governor’s race last fall, said: “They can’t arrest all of us, they can’t indict all of us, they can’t stop all of us, we are so powerful together.”
Some Democrats have criticized Republicans for using such talk as they seek portray themselves as the party of law and order, and call out left-wing protesters as threats to public safety. Broadly, the Republican response reflects a larger turn the party has taken during the Trump era, as the former president has repeatedly castigated institutions that were once more revered in GOP circles, but have now becomes targets for relentless criticism.
in Biden’s garage. “A bathroom door locks,” McCarthy said, defending Trump over one of the locations where the former president is alleged to have kept boxes containing sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago.last week that he has “never once, not one single time, suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge or not bringing a charge.” His comments have done little to quiet Republican critics.
He said his Republican rivals have, for the most part, not addressed the substance of the indictment because “it’s indefensible and they’re playing games.”
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