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Durham Report Fallout!

'THERE MUST BE CONSEQUENCES': GOP Members Unload, Say FBI Weaponized Against Trump

posted by Hannity Staff - 5.16.23

Monday’s release of the Durham Report revealed what many in the GOP have known all along: Donald Trump was unjustly targeted by a weaponized FBI. Special Counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI and DOJ had no actual evidence for opening up a probe into the former President —but they did it anyway.

Now, prominent GOP voices are calling for action.

“The Durham Report reveals that Obama’s FBI had zero actual evidence of collusion when they kicked off the political witch hunt of Donald Trump,” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) wrote on Twitter. “We have said this all along. Now there must be consequences.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) agrees with Scalise and released a statement calling for “accountability.”

“The long-awaited Durham Report confirmed what the American people already know; that individuals at the highest levels of government attempted to overthrow democracy when they illegally weaponized the federal government against Donald J. Trump,” Stefanik said in a statement.

“This criminal abuse of power went all the way up to the Oval Office where President Obama and then Vice-President Joe Biden were in on it from the very beginning. This was an unlawful attempt by the politicized FBI and DOJ to meddle in our elections.

“The entire false smear was manufactured and paid for by political opponents of Donald Trump and perpetrated by the Left’s salivating mainstream media stenographers. Crossfire Hurricane was nothing more than an illegal, unlawful, and unAmerican abuse of power. I am more committed than ever to ensuring that those involved are held accountable and face criminal prosecution,” the congresswoman concluded.

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs says it’s time to defund the DOJ: “John Durham concluded that ‘neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion … This is what weaponized govt. looks like and why I seek to defund the FBI/DOJ. Imagine what else they are doing too,” Biggs tweeted.

Utah Senator Mike Lee weighed in, saying the “gravity of the misconduct uncovered…cannot be overstated.”

“That is itself incredibly troubling—and also unconstitutional,” Lee added. “But this was SO MUCH WORSE than that. It was an effort to use use a powerful, long-respected, federal law-enforcement agency to render a presidential candidate unelectable — entirely in the absence of any valid, good-faith basis for doing so.”

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert summed it up with a simple “Trump was right.”

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