Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy practically begged Donald Trump to publicly call on his supporters to “tamp down the rhetoric” against the FBI amid an increase in threats to agents and officers following the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago last week.

“We just know there are a lot of very specific threats against very specific agents at the FBI and what not,” Doocy said Monday morning. “It would be great if everybody would tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI, because the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do.”

The FBI and DOJ have expressed concern at the possibility of attacks on law enforcement given the anger over the search, which is being fueled by Trump’s constant attacks. A man in Cincinnati was shot and killed after an attempted breach of an FBI field office.

“With all of these threats going around it would ultimately be great if the former president, who has always been a great supporter of law enforcement, it would be great if he called for an end to the violent rhetoric against federal law enforcement,” Doocy said.

Last Thursday, AG Merrick Garland defended the FBI and DOJ while announcing he would request to unseal a federal judge’s warrant authorizing the search. Trump’s lawyers also agreed to unseal the warrant, which was publicly released on Friday.

“The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants,” Garland said, adding he would not “stand by,” while Trump’s supporters launched attacks against the people in his department.

Doocy basically repeated this sentiment, saying the FBI agents who executed the search at Mar-a-Lago “were just doing their job.”

Trump is known to watch “Fox & Friends” regularly, more so than any other Fox News program. And Trump was obviously watching, because shortly after Doocy’s remarks, he made remarks that the temperature “has to be brought down” after the “raid”.

Trump warned that “terrible things are going to happen” if the country’s temperature isn’t brought down, all while continuing to baselessly accuse the FBI of a “sneak attack” on Mar-a-Lago and repeating his allegation that “they could have planted anything they wanted.”

“People are so angry at what is taking place,” Trump told Fox News Digital on Monday. “Whatever we can do to help— because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”

In his Fox interview, Trump said his representatives haven’t heard back from DOJ officials on his offer to “help the country.” Probably because the DOJ knows Trump only wants to see the country burn.

WATCH:

This morning Fox's Steve Doocy repeatedly criticized the right's "harmful rhetoric" against the FBI (rhetoric that's been frequent on Fox). He seemed to be speaking to Trump here: "It would be great if he called for an end to the violent rhetoric against federal law enforcement." pic.twitter.com/NPk2YncaGE

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2022