{"id":1610500,"date":"2022-08-17T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610500"},"modified":"2022-08-17T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:55:51","slug":"pence-slams-calls-within-republican-party-to-defund-fbi-argues-theyre-just-as-wrong-as-defund-the-police-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-slams-calls-within-republican-party-to-defund-fbi-argues-theyre-just-as-wrong-as-defund-the-police-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence Slams Calls Within Republican Party To Defund FBI, Argues They\u2019re \u2018Just As Wrong\u2019 As Defund The Police Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fpence-slams-calls-within-republican-party-to-defund-fbi-argues-theyre-just-as-wrong-as-defund-the-police-push%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=1610500&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\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-10.35.15-AM-e1660746953540.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed calls to defund the FBI on Wednesday, putting him at odds with some members of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/16\/defund-fbi-trump-republicans-midterms\">number<\/a> of individuals within the GOP, like Republican Reps. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1559166615454990337?s=20&#038;t=gX7hQmwtwu-5nQb56uCepw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> of Georgia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepBoebert\/status\/1556806696911118336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1556806696911118336%7Ctwgr%5Ec98e3be9f7f8429a45dd096193d81bc653b3d1d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebulwark.com%2Fdefund-the-fbi-the-maga-rights-hypocritical-new-slogan%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lauren Boebert<\/a> of Colorado and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrPaulGosar\/status\/1556790609213546496?s=20&#038;t=7i81h0HTSZuAp5Dp2UlvxQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Gosar<\/a> of Arizona, have called for defunding the FBI following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/08\/donald-trump-statement-fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-florida\/\">raid<\/a> on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home. This rallying cry, Pence said Wednesday, equates to the \u201cdefund the police\u201d slogan pushed by some of the more liberal members of the Democratic Party \u2013 a slogan that Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/democrats-defund-police-gop-gettr-stefanik\/\">sharply<\/a> decried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to remind my fellow Republicans: We can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision that he made without attacking rank and file law enforcement personnel at the FBI. The Republican Party is the party of law and order,\u201d Pence said during the New Hampshire-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anselm.edu\/new-hampshire-institute-politics\/politics-eggs\">\u201cPolitics &#038; Eggs\u201d<\/a> breakfast event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese attacks on the FBI must stop. Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n[embedded content]\n<p>Pence, while admitting it\u2019s \u201cfairly well known\u201d that he and Trump have had \u201cdifferences\u201d in opinion, still appeared to take the former president\u2019s side regarding allegations of politicization of the FBI. Shortly after the raid occurred, the former vice president <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mike_Pence\/status\/1557031914829135872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed<\/a> his \u201cdeep concern\u201d surrounding the search of Trump\u2019s home. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/04\/trump-wrong-mike-pence-rebukes-claim-overturned-2020-election\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Pence Smacks Down Idea He Could Have \u2018Overturned\u2019 2020 Election)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He furthered his initial comments Wednesday, demanding more transparency from Attorney General Merrick Garland. While the Department of Justice (DOJ) backed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/11\/merrick-garland-donald-trump-fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-unseal-search-warrant\/\">unsealing<\/a> the search warrant, it recently argued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/15\/politics\/justice-department-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit\/index.html\">against<\/a> releasing details in the affidavit pertaining to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call on Attorney General Garland to give the American people a full accounting of the reasons why this action was necessary and while he\u2019s begun to do so, it\u2019s not nearly enough information \u2026 and I\u2019m going to continue to call on the attorney general to make that information available to the American people, make it available to the intelligence committees that are confident with dealing with classified information,\u201d Pence said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unprecedented action does demand unprecedented transparency,\u201d the former vice president continued.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed calls to defund the FBI on Wednesday, putting him at odds with some members of the Republican Party.A number of individuals within the GOP,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"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-1610500","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\/1610500","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610500\/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=1610500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}