{"id":1597289,"date":"2022-08-09T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597289"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:55:35","slug":"top-gop-senators-stay-quiet-about-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-gop-senators-stay-quiet-about-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Top GOP Senators Stay Quiet About FBI\u2019s Mar-A-Lago Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-gop-senators-stay-quiet-about-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mcconnell-scaled-e1660070413241.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Several members of the Republican Senate leadership team were slow to respond to the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s (FBI) Monday search of Mar-a-Lago, with the two top Republicans in the upper chamber not commenting at all.<\/p>\n<p>Conference Chairman John Barrasso of Wyoming, Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott of Florida, and Vice Conference Chairwoman Joni Ernst of Iowa were the only members of McConnell\u2019s six-senator leadership team to release statements on the raid, as of Tuesday afternoon. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Whip John Thune of South Dakota, and Policy Committee Chairman Roy Blunt of Missouri have not commented publicly.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell appeared at a press conference Tuesday afternoon in his home state as he surveyed <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/floods-tornadoes-biden-kentucky-weather-94bc889ca2bb2fbb28e17f5edebdae9d\">flooding<\/a> that has left at least 37 dead. He declined to answer a question about Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1557074387282677765\">saying<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m here today to talk about the flood, and the recovery from the flood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, Thune and Blunt did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cRaiding a former president\u2019s home is unprecedented. The Justice Department needs to quickly and transparently tell the American people who approved this raid and why it occurred,\u201d Barrasso tweeted Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Raiding a former president\u2019s home is unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department needs to quickly and transparently tell the American people who approved this raid and why it occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnBarrasso\/status\/1557005904960229377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scott threatened impeachment for Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement Tuesday morning, adding that \u201cevery Republican must demand accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When Republicans retake the majority in the Senate, there will be a thorough &#038; aggressive investigation into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FBI<\/a>\u2018s raid of Mar-a-Lago. Everything needs to be on the table for AG Garland, including impeachment if he doesn\u2019t come out TODAY &#038; explain what happened. \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9FObFjcKSF\">pic.twitter.com\/9FObFjcKSF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRickScott\/status\/1557022828981018624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ernst described the FBI\u2019s search as \u201ctotally unprecedented\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJoniErnst\/status\/1557040888479715330\">tweet<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday afternoon,\u00a0adding that \u201ct<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">he American people deserve answers, now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In contrast, all three out of the four members of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s leadership team released <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1556816979650121728\">statements<\/a> condemning the search Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliseStefanik\/status\/1556823412873502721\">night<\/a>, with McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1556807790433271809\">promising<\/a> that the GOP would leave \u201cno stone unturned\u201d if it takes back the lower chamber in 2023. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/12\/kevin-mccarthy-training-sessions-house-gop-staff-investigations-joe-biden-administration\/\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy Plans Training Sessions For House GOP Staffers As Party Preps Investigations Into Biden Admin)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McConnell and Thune in particular are both known to have frosty relationships with former President Donald Trump. McConnell has not spoken with Trump since Jan. 7, 2021, the top Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/mcconnell-says-he-and-trump-havent-spoken-in-more-than-a-year\">told<\/a> the Washington Examiner in March 2022. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/531387-trump-attacks-thune-he-will-be-primaried-in-2022\/\">threatened<\/a> to back a primary challenge to Thune in December 2020 after the whip pushed back on plans to object to Electoral College certification, although Trump did not ultimately do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of the Republican Senate leadership team were slow to respond to the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s (FBI) Monday search of Mar-a-Lago, with the two top Republicans in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}