Texas Scorecard by Sebastian Castro | August 9, 2022
Conservative leaders react to an unprecedented raid on Trump’s Florida home.Following the FBI raid on Monday night of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, Republican lawmakers and officials in Texas are speaking out.
Ronny Jackson
@RonnyJacksonTX
US House candidate, TX-13
WAKE UP! Joe Biden is using the FBI to go after President Trump!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! Democrats are voting to double the size of the IRS so they can come after you for MORE of your hard-earned paycheck. Is this the Soviet Union or Communist China? They MUST be stopped!
In a later tweet, Jackson called out the FBI, saying, “Tonight the FBI officially became the enemy of the people!!!”
He added, “Biden is turning the FBI into his secret police. His own personal weapon to SILENCE regime enemies. They hate your freedom. This administration is truly the ENEMY of the American people!!”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called the raid “corrupt & an abuse of power.”
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
1/x The FBI raiding Donald Trump is unprecedented.
It is corrupt & an abuse of power.
What Nixon tried to do, Biden has now implemented: The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies.
And with 87K new IRS agents, they’re coming for YOU too.
2/x Congress must demand answers. We need hearings; we need subpoenas.
Dems in charge will refuse, but the American people deserve to know why Biden is using the FBI as his political enforcers.
Tin-pot dictators do that, but that’s not how America works.
3/x This same DOJ:
- ignored Hunter Biden (who filmed himself committing multiple felonies);
- ignored Hillary Clinton;
- largely ignored BLM/ANTIFA rioters;
- ignored dangerous protestors outside Justices homes; &
- ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s clients.
WHY??
Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
Governor candidate, TX
This is next-level Nixonian.
Never before has the country seen an Administration go to such extent to use the levers of government to target a former President and political rival.
This weaponizes power to squelch dissent.
Such abuses must have limits
Bryan Slaton
@BryanforHD2
We are at war with the Left.
Watergate pales in comparison and it’s time to stop acting like Democrats are a party we can work with.
Texas should immediately expel all FBI employees from our state until this madness ends.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-republicans-react-to-fbi-raiding-trump/
