{"id":1606879,"date":"2022-08-15T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606879"},"modified":"2022-08-15T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:41:13","slug":"banana-republic-desantis-calls-out-the-fbi-following-mar-a-lago-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/banana-republic-desantis-calls-out-the-fbi-following-mar-a-lago-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Banana Republic\u2019: DeSantis Calls Out The FBI Following 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\">20<\/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%2Fbanana-republic-desantis-calls-out-the-fbi-following-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=1606879&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\/IMG-8445-e1660583564123.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accused government agencies Sunday of being \u201cweaponized\u201d against people they oppose as a response to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid in Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>The governor claimed during Turning Point Action\u2019s \u201cUnited and Win\u201d rally in Phoenix, Arizona that there is a double standard between the FBI\u2019s treatment of Trump and former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in handling their possession of classified information..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese agencies have now been weaponized to be used against people the government doesn\u2019t like,\u201d DeSantis stated. \u201cYou look at the raid at Mar-a-Lago and I\u2019m just trying to remember, maybe somebody here can remind me about when they did a search warrant at Hillary\u2019s house in Chappaqua when she had a rogue server and she was laundering classified information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember them doing that. I do remember them manufacturing a false conspiracy theory about Russia collusion. I remember that. That was not true, that was an abuse of power,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<p>The governor called on Congress to \u201cbring accountability\u201d to the FBI and fellow agencies following their alleged inaction on left-wing attacks on the right, further alleging the agency targeted concerned parents at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/11\/exclusive-fbi-director-told-former-agents-the-bureau-will-stay-in-its-own-lane-and-wont-be-attending-school-board-meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school board meetings<\/a> and refusing to enforce a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/09\/senate-police-protection-supreme-court-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">law<\/a> intended to protect conservative Supreme Court justices and the attack on crisis pregnancy centers in the aftermath of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-samuel-alito-politico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaked<\/a> ruling on the Dobbs v. Jackson case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re enforcing the law based on who they like and who they don\u2019t like,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat is not a republic, well, maybe it\u2019s a banana republic when that happens. Why has this been able to happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/08\/donald-trump-statement-fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sharply criticized<\/a> the FBI in a lengthy statement Aug. 8 statement regarding the raid. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/08\/desantis-campaign-for-trump-endorsed-candidates-turning-point-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: DeSantis To Campaign For Trump-Endorsed Candidates In \u2018United And Win\u2019 Rally)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don\u2019t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections,\u201d the former president said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and DeSantis have continuously stood neck-in-neck in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/20\/ron-desantis-leads-2024-straw-poll-donald-trump-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">straw polls<\/a> presenting the public\u2019s preference to be the potential 2024 presidential candidate. DeSantis narrowly led Trump in a University of New Hampshire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/22\/ron-desantis-leads-donald-trump-poll-new-hampshire-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> released in June, garnering 39% support and Trump with 37%.<\/p>\n<p>The former president\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/20\/donald-trump-predicts-beating-ron-desantis-2024-matchup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed confidence<\/a> in a June 2022 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/06\/27\/can-ron-desantis-displace-donald-trump-as-the-gops-combatant-in-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a> that he would beat DeSantis if he decides to run in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accused government agencies Sunday of being \u201cweaponized\u201d against people they oppose as a response to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid in Mar-a-Lago.The governor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"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-1606879","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\/1606879","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606879\/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=1606879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}