GOP governors rebuke party members’ ‘outrageous rhetoric’ over Trump search

Larry Hogan describes comparisons of the FBI to Nazi Germany's secret police, made by Florida senator Rick Scott, as dangerous

A handful of Republican governors have criticized the outrageous rhetoric" of their party colleagues in the US Congress, who have accused federal law enforcement officers of a politicized attack on former president Donald Trump after executing a court-approved search warrant on his Florida home this week.

Maryland governor Larry Hogan, a Republican moderate, described attacks by party members as both absurd" and dangerous", after a week in which certain Republicans have compared the FBI to the Gestapo and fundraised off the slogan: Defund the FBI".