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Maryland Gov. Hogan says ‘outrageous’ GOP rhetoric on Trump search, calls to defund FBI ‘dangerous’

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday chastised fellow Republicans for attacking the FBI after its seizure of classified material from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Mr. Hogan, who hails from a family of FBI agents, decried as hypocritical and “dangerous” GOP rhetoric against federal law enforcement and calls for the agency to be defunded in the wake of an armed man who tried to breach the Cincinnati FBI field office being fatally shot last week.

“It’s very concerning to me. It’s outrageous rhetoric,” Mr. Hogan said on ABC’s “This Week.” “First, we had the left talking about defunding the police and attacking police officers, and now we have the right saying defund these federal law enforcement officers.