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After discovering that President Joe Biden was in possession of confidential information, Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan ripped into MSNBC presenter Chuck Todd over national security concerns surrounding the vice president.
Jordan discussed Biden’s think tank and the discovery of private papers in the garage of his Wilmington home during an appearance with Meet The Press. The U.S. Secret Service appears to have no visitation logs from Biden’s Delaware residence, which raises concerns about lack of openness.
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Jordan promised that House Republicans will conduct their own investigations to “get to the bottom” of the matter. Additionally, he discussed how Trump was handled quite differently from Biden and even Clinton when she was criticized for using a private email server.
“Many of the things you want to investigate, when I look at them in isolation, I think they’re fair targets,” Todd stated. “I think they’re fair things for you to be questioning. The problem that when you look at it is you want to talk about the weaponization of the Justice Department, you don’t want to look at anything that happened during the Trump years. If you are concerned about the weaponization of the Justice Department in the Biden years, why not investigate the Trump years?”
Jordan continued and asked the host: “Do you think it’s okay for the FBI be meeting every week and suppressing information, suppressing the Hunter Biden server which we know is true? Do you think that’s all right?”
Todd pressed Jordan on the claim that Trump wasn’t treated fairly:
“You keep talking about this raid on Donald Trump,” Todd said. “The amount of time…there was nine months between the initial action that the archives made for requests of documents before they even turned it over to the Justice Department. The subpoena was issued 60 days before they actually executed the subpoena. And more importantly, the only time the public found out about is because Donald Trump told the public about it. You paint it as a picture of the FBI did this, this, and this within hours of each other, when it was actually a year and a half of Donald Trump not complying with any of the requests from National Archives. A year and a half. This is not some sort of proof that somehow that they’ve weaponized and playing politics over here.”
After a short exchange, representative Jim Jordan replied:
“President Trump had documents locked in a room with Secret Service protecting them while President Biden had documents in his garage and in a think tank that was funded by the Chinese,” “I think there’s a difference.”
“You do not seem to ever see the same conspiratorial problems when it’s a Republican,” Chuck Todd responded.
James Comer, a Republican and the head of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is seeking the logs and other information.
The Justice Department has designated Special Counsel Robert Hur to oversee the inquiry into the Biden case involving the sensitive papers.
