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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/conservatives-mueller-fbi-republicans-trump.html
NYTimes - Republican Attacks on Mueller and F.B.I. Open New Rift in G.O.P.
The Democrats have a long way to go before they will get love the law enforcement community at large. The damage they did in vilifying cops as racists murderers will not be forgotten for a very long time. However, with Trump and his allies in Congress constantly assaulting the DOJ and FBI as incompetent and corrupt, all Democratic lawmakers need to do is sit back, verbally support federal law enforcement, and vote for the DOJ budget request and the Republicans will find themselves out of the circle in years to come.
NYTimes - Republican Attacks on Mueller and F.B.I. Open New Rift in G.O.P.
WASHINGTON By NICHOLAS FANDOSDEC. 30, 2017 — A growing campaign by President Trump’s most ardent supporters to discredit the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and the law enforcement agencies assisting his investigation is opening new fissures in the Republican Party, with some lawmakers questioning the damage being done to federal law enforcement and to a political party that has long championed law and order.
A small but vocal group of conservative lawmakers, much of the conservative media and, at times, the president himself have launched a series of attacks to paint not only Mr. Mueller but institutions once considered sacrosanct to Republicans like the F.B.I. and Justice Department as dangerously biased against Mr. Trump. One of them, Representative Francis Rooney of Florida, called on Tuesday for top F.B.I. and Justice Department officials to be “purged.”
Now some Republican lawmakers are speaking out, worried that Trump loyalists, hoping for short-term gain, could wind up staining the party, dampening morale at the F.B.I. and Justice Department, and potentially recasting Democrats as the true friends of law enforcement for years to come.
The Democrats have a long way to go before they will get love the law enforcement community at large. The damage they did in vilifying cops as racists murderers will not be forgotten for a very long time. However, with Trump and his allies in Congress constantly assaulting the DOJ and FBI as incompetent and corrupt, all Democratic lawmakers need to do is sit back, verbally support federal law enforcement, and vote for the DOJ budget request and the Republicans will find themselves out of the circle in years to come.