By Igor Bobic and Ryan J. Reilly
HuffPost
September 5, 2018
WASHINGTON �������� The president of the United States has, in recent days, explicitly called on the attorney general to prosecute his political opponents and criticized him for failing to shut down investigations into members of their own party. In another era, those extraordinary suggestions would have set off a political firestorm, calls for congressional hearings and even talk of impeachment.
But Republican lawmakers reacted to President Donald Trump’s online statement Monday �������� in which he suggested that the Justice Department should wield its power to do the president’s bidding to help two indicted congressmen �������� the way they’ve predictably responded to any inflammatory tweet the president has sent.