Abandoning the “back the blue” pro-police movement, former President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that the FBI and Justice Department have become “vicious monsters.”

Trump’s charge is a repugnant one for any politician to make, let alone a former president. The fact is, the FBI is federal law enforcement. We need FBI agents and other members of the FBI’s professional staff to be on their game, not watching their six worried that charged-up Trump supporters may commit violence against them. With the threats of organized crime, domestic terrorism, unprecedented Chinese espionage activity, and the always-present risk of overseas terrorist groups taking their fight to our homeland, the FBI has a ton on its plate. To attack the FBI, an indispensable institution for national security, is just tremendously irresponsible and should be condemned by all members of the GOP. Thus far, however, what we hear from most prominent Republicans is…crickets.