Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyoming Republican, expressed disappointment Sunday over her party’s response to the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s private residence for classified documents.
Ms. Cheney, who lost her primary election last week to a Trump-backed challenger, said criticism of the event by the former president and his supporters is responsible for the violent threats and attacks against the FBI since then.
“I was ashamed to hear Republicans immediately and reflexively a track the FBI agents who executed a search warrant,” she said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I was disgusted when I learned that President Trump had released the names of those agents when he released the unredacted search warrant.