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by prange 1344 days ago
You don’t need to explain, but I am actually interested. I don’t see it as hair splitting.

My point is that Trump may not be president now, and it seems you see that as a binary.

He is currently head of a large political organization that pre-dates the FBI which made him president once and may do so again.

Currently serving Republican politicians are calling for the FBI to be defunded because they support him.

https://news.yahoo.com/republican-calls-defund-fbi-boost-090...

He hasn’t stopped existing, nor has the organization that supports him any more than the FBI has.

We simply disagree that one is tangible and the other is not.

In any case, there is a huge gap between writing to your congress person to complain about past FBI abuses, and ‘defund the FBI’.