Many on the right claim that this is a civil society based the rule of law, that we have to support our law enforcers, and embrace the law and order flag. Even Trump addressed lawlessness and criminality in America during his inaugural address, proclaiming the "carnage ends now."
Yet, when he and those in his campaign are suspected of wrong-doing and become subjects and targets of criminal investigations relating to their actions during the election, Trump and his number one cheerleader, Hannity, have engaged in a campaign to discredit the FBI, the US intelligence agencies and those doing the investigating. Hannity has called for a halt to the special counsel's investigation from the very beginning, and has echoed Trump's claims that it is a partisan hoax and a witch hunt. He has repeated the alt-right claim that the FBI and the DOJ are deep-state partisans who are out to get Trump and are failed institutions that need to be rebuilt.
After the FBI and US Atty office in NY served search warrants at Cohen's office and residences, Hannity and Trump decried the actions as an attack on American democracy, ignoring the layers of investigative and judicial over-view that examines the underlying accusation of criminal conduct that sought-after evidence in specific locations may prove which precedes the issuance of a search warrant. At least 35 - 40 % of Americans accept their views that the US criminal justice system is corrupt and out to get the President, who they claim is innocent of all the allegations.
Many of these same people, after Trump has been found to have behaved immorally or less than truthfully, are the ones who say, "we all knew who Trump was before the election, and we still voted for him."
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