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GOP Congressman Glenn Grothman and the No. 2 Republican in the state Assembly, Jim Steineke, are among those questioning President Donald Trump’s suggestion that two of his congressional allies should not have been indicted before the midterm elections.

“If (the Department of) Justice has information, I don’t like people sitting on it,” Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, said in an interview. “The public should know about it.”

Steineke had stronger words for Trump, saying it’s “insanity” that the president implied, in Steineke’s words, that “political considerations” should have influenced the recent federal indictments of GOP Reps. Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins. Trump’s remarks came in a Monday Twitter post.

“If people have committed wrongdoing, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, those cases should be brought forward,” Steineke said Tuesday.

Former GOP Congressman Reid Ribble also joined a handful of Republicans who criticized the Trump tweet, which Ribble told WTAQ-FM amounted to the president “admitting that he’s attempting to pressure the Department of Justice for political reasons.”

In the tweet, the president blasted his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for allowing the Justice Department to move ahead with the indictments.