'Lunacy': Trump proposes cuts to agency investigating bomb threats against nominees

A Democratic strategist pointed out an irony in the timing of bomb threats targeting Donald Trump's nominees.

The president-elect's Cabinet picks and nominees have been hit with bomb threats and "swatting attacks, according to his transition team, and former Bill Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein pointed out on MSNBC that Trump wants to make drastic cuts to the agency investigating those threats.

"I will point out that Trump is talking about severe cuts to the FBI," Goodstein said. "So the notion that somehow or other that things will get better if he has his way regarding these cuts is lunacy, right? Again, I trust in short order we will get to the bottom of who is behind this, is there a political motivation, what have you, but I think for now all I can say is again please don't do the things – Joe Biden talks about the tariffs being counterproductive. Cutting the FBI will be counterproductive relative to threats, as well."

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Four of Connecticut's five House representatives were also targeted Thanksgiving Day by bomb hoaxes at their homes, and Republican strategist Susan Del Percio blamed the once and future president's violent rhetoric for those threats.

"Our elected officials and the rhetoric they use should be held accountable, and that is extremes on both sides of the aisle in the past, but it's emphasized and brought almost to a frightening norm under Donald Trump," Del Percio said, "and until he starts recognizing that his words matter and will start condemning these types of attacks on any member of Congress or public officials or anyone else, for that matter, regardless of their political ideology, it's just so important that we recognize that this is not acceptable, and the most important thing that can happen is that that these people are caught and prosecuted and punished as swiftly as possible, and all should be condemned by both sides of the aisle."

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