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Former GOP rep finds it 'so funny' watching his former colleagues 'twist into pretzels' trying to defend Trump
Stephen Proctor
Sun, August 14, 2022 at 11:46 PM
Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, appeared Sunday on The Mehdi Hasan Show, where he addressed how some congressional Republicans are coming to the defense of former President Donald Trump. Following a search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., it has been reported that Trump had taken highly classified documents when he left the White House, which is illegal, even for a former president. Despite the fact that it was a legally executed search warrant, many members of the GOP have rushed to Trump's defense and denigrated the FBI.

“This may be an inappropriate thing to say, but, Mehdi, I find it so funny watching my former colleagues twist into pretzels trying to defend criminal behavior,” Walsh said. “And that’s what they’ve done for the last six years.”

As the FBI faces an unprecedented level of violent threats from Trump supporters since the raid, Walsh compared what’s happening now to that which led to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, which Walsh believes Trump wanted to happe