Jim Jordan Warns Bragg
‘Everything’s on the Table’
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that everything was “on the table” pertaining to Congress’ oversight role into the grand jury indictment of former President Trump.
During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that everything was “on the table” pertaining to Congress’ oversight role in the grand jury indictment of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
“What are you — when are you expecting to speak with Alvin Bragg?” host Maria Bartiromo asked. “If he does not come to testify in front of the Judiciary Committee, will you subpoena him?”
“Everything’s on the table, Maria,” Jordan replied. “We’re going to talk with the other chairman and look at the response. We just got his letter back. We’re reviewing that. But we think that this is — here’s, I think, maybe the most important thing. We think this is bigger. This involves all of us. I don’t think it’s an accident that the same week we learn that the IRS knocked on Matt Taibbi’s door while he’s testifying in Congress, that same week is when we learn a district attorney is going to — a left-wing district attorney, a Soros-backed district attorney, is going to go after the former president of the United States.”
“I mean, that is the scary thing,” he continued. “They paid a foreigner. Think about this. They paid a foreigner to put together a fake dossier to spy on President Trump’s campaign. The FTC sends letters to Twitter demanding, who are the journalists you’re talking to? And then, of course, when Matt Taibbi is testifying, the IRS is knocking on his door. And now an indictment of a former president, the guy who happens to be leading in every single poll. This is about all of us. This is about going after anyone who opposes the left’s agenda, the establishment’s agenda. And that’s maybe the most scary thing of all.”
lawyers blast ‘political persecution’
Donald Trump’s lawyers on Sunday lambasted the former president’s historic indictment as “political persecution” ahead of his court appearance next week.
Trump himself plans to make public remarks on Tuesday from Florida, he said in a statement Sunday.
The ex-leader, 76, is due to be arraigned at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday afternoon — the first time a president or former president faces criminal charges.
He has denounced the legal proceedings as a “witch hunt” and assailed the judge assigned to hear it.
On Sunday, his attorney Joe Tacopina bluntly dismissed the anticipated charges — related to a hush-money payment to an adult film star in 2016 — as “some twilight zone sort of scenario” in an “upside down world.”
“This is a case of political persecution,” he said on CNN.
Tacopina also blasted likely key witness Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer who was jailed on related charges and turned against his former boss, as “a pathological, convicted liar.”
