Marjorie Taylor Greene

Rep. Liz Cheney's (R-WY) landslide election defeat on Tuesday revealed just how much former President Donald Trump has transformed the Republican Party -- which, according to Financial Times columnist Edward Luce, now resembles a freak show more than a political party.

Once considered Republican royalty, the lawmaker from Wyoming has become a pariah in the party over her membership of the congressional panel investigating the January 6 assault on the US Capitol -- and Trump's role in fanning the flames.

Republicans spent a year attacking Democrats saying that they wanted to "defund the police," following a series of police-involved shootings of unarmed people of color. Yet, in wake of the search warrant executed at Donald Trump's golf club in Palm Beach, Republicans have adopted their own "Defund the FBI" message.

Mere months ahead of the midterm elections, Axios reported that the slogan once called "radical" by the GOP is now being adopted. Fringe Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) even went so far as to develop a line of merchandise on her campaign website with the slogan.

When FBI agents conducted a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, August 8, it didn’t take long for former President Donald Trump’s allies — from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to far-right pundits at Fox News and Newsmax — to leap to his defense. Even when the Washington Post reported, on August 11, that FBI agents were searching for “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons,” Trump’s supporters continued to defend him vigorously.

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan lambasted Trump and his “apologists” during a blistering commentary on Sunday night, August 14, accusing them of pushing outright “lies” about the FBI search.

Republicans have all but declared that Donald Trump exists above the law, and Democrats expect them to make that official if they retake the House.

Trump loyalists treat any investigations into the former president as illegitimate, and Democrats have begun to examine various parliamentary tools Republicans could use to essentially defund the various probes and make him untouchable by the law, wrote Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent.

After the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, August 8, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the federal government to “defund the FBI” and “dismantle the DOJ” — and her rhetoric has been echoed by other far-right MAGA Republicans and supporters of former President Donald Trump. But one conservative non-MAGA Republican who is adamantly opposed to defunding the FBI or dismantling the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. During a Sunday, August 14 appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” Hogan forcefully called out the MAGA Republicans who have been demonizing the FBI since the Mar-a-Lago search.

“Defund the FBI” is Greene’s version of “defund the police,” a slogan that left-wing activists unveiled in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The ironic part about Greene saying “Defund the FBI” is that “defund the police” is a slogan that right-wing media pundits have been using to attack the Democratic Party, although truth be told, “defund the police” is a slogan used by street activists — not part of the official Democratic Party platform. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (a former police officer), and former Philadelphia Mayor Mike Nutter are among the many Democrats who have stressed that they are adamantly opposed to defunding the police. And the Rev. Al Sharpton, the liberal activist who hosts “Politics Nation” on MSNBC, has said that while he supports “reforming the police,” he is opposed to defunding the police.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell of California posted audio of a violent death threat against him and his family, with the speaker calling for "all Democrats" to be killed and ending with a call for "Trump 2024."

Swalwell, married with three children, is a popular target for the right. The California Democrat is a former candidate for president, a visible member of the Democratic Party, and is co-chair of the House Democratic Steering Committee.

After Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf club, where he lives, got a visit from the FBI this week looking for a set of classified documents that they thought the former president stole from the White House, his followers have waged war.

The day after the execution of a search warrant, Trump supporters were cataloged online, making threats against the judge who signed the search warrant. They revealed all of his personal information, called for information about his children, began attacking his place of worship and called for his death. That trend has continued as Trump supporters are now going after law enforcement.

Republican lawmakers are reportedly at an impasse on whether or not they should be defending former President Donald Trump amid his latest flurry of legal woes. The party is also facing challenges with navigating some lawmakers' critical assessments of law enforcement over the Trump investigation.

A new analysis is breaking down Republicans' seemingly flawed response and how it underscores the cracks in the political party's foundation.

Toxic rhetoric by Republicans following an FBI execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago is responsible for the death of the Ohio man who allegedly attacked the FBI field office in Cincinnati, according to a member of the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Ricky Shiffer, 42, was reportedly at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and an account on Donald Trump's Truth Social website appeared to post between his attack and his final, fatal encounter with law enforcement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday said she would soon introduce articles of impeachment against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in the wake of the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago.

A copy of the resolution, obtained by Daily Caller reporter Henry Rodgers, states that Garland should be impeached for personally approving the search of Donald Trump's Florida home. The resolution describes the search as "a blatant attempt to persecute a political opponent."

In a scorching column for the Daily Beast, conservative Matt Lewis complained that the Republican Party that he joined has become unrecognizable under Donald Trump and the GOP reaction to the search at Mar-a-Lago for stolen national security documents has pushed them into "deranged" territory.

As Lewis notes, there have been many reasons to part ways with Republicans during the Trump years, but that latest outrage, where GOP lawmakers like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have called to "defund the FBI" over the Mar-a-Lago search, has reached a new low.

The FBI Agents Association said Thursday that the surge of threats against them after the raid on the home of former president Donald Trump encouraged violence against law enforcement and was "unacceptable."

Conservative politicians and Trump himself bashed the Federal Bureau of Investigation as "corrupt" and "politicized" following the raid Monday, in which agents sought classified documents that Trump had retained in violation of rules on official records.

On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's "The ReidOut," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) tore into the GOP for violent rhetoric against the FBI's search warrant of former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

This comes after an armed man who had advocated violence against the FBI for going after Trump was killed by police after trying to breach a federal building in Cincinnati, Ohio.