‘You Attack a Federal Officer…’ Steve Doocy Shuts Down Outrage From Co-Hosts Over Feds Investigating Jan 6

Steve Doocy pumped the brakes on the brewing outrage from his Fox & Friends co-hosts focused on the reported federal investigation into Donald Trump-related customer data.

Fox & Friends started Thursday covering documents obtained by Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) for the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The documents suggest that after the events of January 6th, federal investigators looked for signs of extremism by asking banks to look through customer transactions by using search term filters like “MAGA” and “Trump,” but also more generic terms like “Small Arms,” “Cabela’s,” and “Dick’s Sporting Goods.”

From Fox News’ reporting on the documents:

According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views,’” Jordan detailed in a letter to the former director of FinCEN, Noah Bishoff, a career employee.

“In other words, FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression,” Jordan wrote.

As Brooke Singman told the Fox News morning show that there wasn’t an apparent end date for these data searches, Doocy noted the timing of the investigation, pointing out that “this all happened during the Trump administration.” Singman acknowledged that point, even as she focused on Jordan’s claims that the data surveillance continued after President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

As the Fox hosts took over the conversation, Ainsley Earhardt said, “Basically, we don’t have any privacy. This is such an invasion!” Doocy, who has established himself as a contrarian in recent months, countered by raising a possibility of why the feds were looking at hunting retailers after January 6th.

“You know what Bass Pro, Cabela’s, and Dick’s Sporting Goods all sell? Bear spray,” he said. “There were a number of police officers, federal officers who were attacked, allegedly and some people have been convicted since then because they used bear spray… You attack a federal officer, there’s gonna be a federal investigation obviously. I don’t know. I’m just suggesting, they all sell bear spray.”

The discussion went on as the co-hosts questioned the legality of the investigation, and Lawrence Jones hoped financial investigations are also being launched into “these little jihadis” holding pro-Hamas protests. Doocy again slowed the roll on his colleagues though, by noting, “Ultimately, it comes down to did what this FinCEN do, was it allowed by law?”

Because if you’ve got your bank and other banks as well giving this stuff up, and I don’t know. Jim Jordan has put a lot of stuff out there, but not a lot of details. We don’t know if it was legal. And, if it was legal, apparently they can do it. When you sign into a new account, the terms of service, you know. You are going to abide by federal law. Maybe this is one of them. We don’t know.

That wasn’t the end of the conversation, however. Doocy again reiterated that this alleged surveillance occurred during the Trump administration, which didn’t seem to keep his colleagues from the outrage they seemed committed to.

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