Steve Doocy calls out Elise Stefanik's anti-law enforcement rant: 'The FBI director was appointed by Trump!'
By: Matthew Chapman (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)
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Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) smiles after House Republicans voted for her as their conference chairperson at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on May 14, 2021.( Mandel Ngan/AFP)
On Friday morning's edition of "Fox and Friends," Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) went on to attack the FBI — but was caught off guard when co-anchor Steve Doocy actually hit back and pointed out there are several reasons to think the search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club was justified and serious.
The FBI, as Doocy noted, was in fact looking for highly classified nuclear secrets as part of their search — and he challenged Stefanik to justify why that wouldn't be a legitimate thing to investigate.
"House Republicans are going to follow the facts and demand accountability and transparency," said Stefanik. "The statement by Attorney General Merrick Garland is not nearly enough ... this is Joe Biden's Department of Justice and FBI, targeting his most likely presidential opponent in 2024. It is not news to the American people that President Trump is very likely to run for president. This was incredibly an overreach, it's un-American, and there's going to be a lot more questions from the FBI that the American people deserve."
"Well, of course, the FBI director was appointed by Donald Trump," Doocy corrected her. "But Congresswoman, if — and they're just allegations, and we just have a little taste of the story from The New York Times and The Washington Post — they say, as Peter talked a moment ago, that apparently there was a national security concern about some of the documents, allegedly, at Mar-a-Lago. That they were materials from — they were higher than Top Secret, they were classified higher than that. As you know, they're called special access programs, and apparently they're related to nuclear weapons. We don't know if they're our weapons, we don't know if they're another country's weapons. But if that is true, and they were just in the basement at Mar-a-Lago, that's kind of a big deal."
"Well certainly, Steve, there's been a lot of, again, guesses as to, and media reporting," said Stefanik. "We do not know the facts, which is why it's important to follow the facts wherever they lead. And that's why it's important in our oversight role on the House Intelligence Committee, we continue to see the FBI refuse to answer questions when they create controversies and they overreach, and that should never be the case."
Trump responded to the new reports that the FBI was searching for nuclear material with a new rant earlier in the morning, accusing them of "planting information." However, he has indicated he will not contest the DOJ's move to unseal the warrant.
Watch below:
\u201c.@RepStefanik: [word salad about FBI]\nDoocy the Elder: Trump appointed the FBI director. Isn't it a big deal if there were nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago?\nStefanik: [more word salad]\u201d — Andrew Feinberg (@Andrew Feinberg) 1660303206
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Sounds like Steve Doocy is having second thoughts for being a Trump bootlicker all these years.
Open mouth, insert foot. Thank you Rep. Stefanik.
If this search turns up empty....it's all over for the Dems
And what if they did turn up highly classified documents from the Mar-a-Lago search? What then Greg?
Does that mean it's all over for the republicans?
Does that mean it is all over for Trump?
Or does that mean republicans will stop talking about it 1 day later, and deny it ever happened 2 days later?
Wait for the Paul Harvey moment.
I asked 5 questions Greg. Apparently you are too afraid to even answer 1 of them.
What ????
That caused me to grab another coffee.
What facts?
Why does anyone think who appointed Wray is relevant?
What's relevant is the FBI has disgraced itself under Wray with it's politicization and lies to the judiciary. That history is what gives any rational person pause at accepting FBI statements at face value.
Because Trump demanded absolute loyalty from those he hired. And yet Wray is standing up and supporting the search warrant, and the actions of the FBI.
Pathetic.