{"id":4446,"date":"2022-08-16T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2022-08-16T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:04:51","slug":"totally-off-the-rails-desantis-rips-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/national\/2022\/08\/16\/news\/4446\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Totally off the rails\u2019: DeSantis rips FBI\u2019s Mar-a-Lago raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4447\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fl-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed at a rally in Arizona that federal agencies are being \u201cweaponized\u201d against political opponents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Broadcasting News Corporation : Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the FBI\u2019s raid of Mar-a-Lago at a rally in Arizona, asserting that federal law enforcement agencies are being \u201cweaponized\u201d against political enemies. Stumping for Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, DeSantis accused the department of having gone \u201ctotally off the rails\u201d with its raid of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida home.<br \/>\n\u201cThese agencies have now been weaponized to be used against people that the government doesn\u2019t like,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd you look at the raid at Mar-a-Lago.\u201d The GOP firebrand and potential 2024 presidential nominee then listed instances where he believed the FBI engaged in politically motivated activity or inaction. DeSantis said the FBI did not probe Hillary Clinton\u2019s server but promoted the \u201cfalse conspiracy theory\u201d that Trump had colluded with Russia. He also asserted that the agency was \u201csicced on parents going to school board meetings,\u201d apparently referring to a Virginia mom\u2019s claim in October related to her and other parents\u2019 protest of a school board meeting. \u201cMeanwhile, when you have a law that protects Supreme Court justices is the FBI out there protecting our conservative justices?\u201d he continued. \u201cNo.\u201d DeSantis called for Congress to rein in the agency \u2014 especially if Republicans take control of both houses. \u201cThey are enforcing the law based on who they like and who they don\u2019t like,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not a republic. Well, maybe that\u2019s a banana republic.\u201d<br \/>\nOthers, including some in the GOP, have called for patience in assessing the FBI\u2019s action at Trump\u2019s Florida residence, arguing that there shouldn\u2019t be a rush to judgement. Meanwhile, Lake raised some eyebrows Sunday night after telling the audience that both Trump and DeSantis exhibit \u201cBDE\u201d \u2014 an acronym for \u201cbig d\u2014 energy.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s got the same kind of BDE that President Trump has,\u201d Lake said of DeSantis. \u201cAnd frankly, he has the same kind of BDE that we want all of our elected leaders to have.\u201d News collected from NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Broadcasting News Corporation : Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the FBI\u2019s raid of Mar-a-Lago at a rally in Arizona, asserting that federal law enforcement agencies are being \u201cweaponized\u201d against political enemies. Stumping for Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, DeSantis accused the department of having gone \u201ctotally off the rails\u201d with its raid of former &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}