Fox Host: Why Aren’t Republicans ‘Screaming For The Arrest’ Of McCabe?

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Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs — one of President Trump’s favorite TV hosts — questioned on Monday why Republicans in Washington, D.C. aren’t “screaming for the arrest” of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

“Why is the establishment in Washington D.C. not screaming for the arrest of Andrew McCabe and all of his cohorts in the DOJ and the FBI?” Dobbs said during an interview with American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp, according to Mediate. “Why is it that there seems to be almost a satisfaction in the status quo, no matter how rancid and corrupt in the swamp that is D.C.?”

Schlapp said he hopes the new Attorney General William Barr will take some action on McCabe, who confirmed in a recent “60 Minutes” interview that the Justice Department at one point spoke about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Schlapp then suggested that Republicans are afraid to go after the “deep state” because “they might become its next victim.”

H/t: Mediate. 

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  1. Schlapp said he hopes the new Attorney General William Barr will take some action on McCabe, who confirmed in a recent “60 Minutes” interview that the Justice Department at one point spoke about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Schlapp then suggested that Republicans are afraid to go after the “deep state” because “they might become its next victim.”

    Exploring invoking the 25th Amendment merits investigation and arrest? So, if the Sec of Transportation observed Trump muttering to the walls and ranting about wanting to nuke Australia would she be similary guilty of some crime and deserving of jail were she to bring up the 25th with other cabinet members?
  2. Why not, indeed?

    The FBI has been illegally violating the civil rights of peaceful civil-rights and anti-war groups since its inception.

    But I doubt Fox news or any Republicans (or most Democrats) care about that.

  3. We need a 25th+++ Amendment to remove commentators in the final stages of brain rot.

  4. Hippie punching will always be a good sport.

  5. Well for one thing Mr. Dobbs, ya don’t arrest someone for expressing an opinion in an interview.

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