Dan Crenshaw knocks ‘crazy’ GOP rhetoric against FBI: ‘It makes us seem like extremist Democrats’

Washington Examiner

Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Sunday criticized fellow Republicans who continue to call for the FBI to be defunded over its search of former President Donald Trump’s private home.

Mr. Crenshaw, Texas Republican, has emerged as a leading critic of those like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, who advocate to “defund the FBI” — a position he compared to far-left Democrats’ calls to “defund the police.”

“It’s crazy, and it makes us seem like extremist Democrats,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Marjorie and [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat] can go join the ‘defund the law enforcement’ club if they want; 99% of Republicans are not on that train. What we want is accountability. We want transparency.”