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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has announced the date for when the special counsel assigned to investigate Hunter Biden’s allegations will appear before his panel to provide testimony.
“David Weiss has committed to come in front of the committee on Oct. 18, so we can look forward to that,” Jordan announced, according to a Tuesday report.
Jordan also talked about evidence that allegedly links President Joe Biden to his son, who, according to Hunter’s attorney George Mesires, was on the board of Ukrainian energy corporation Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019. Joe Biden served as then-President Barack Obama’s vice president until January 2017.
“You can boil” the question of Joe Biden’s alleged corruption “down to the Burisma situation,” Jordan added.
“Burisma, I think, captures it all. Hunter Biden gets put on the board; gets paid a lot of money. Fact No. 2: He wasn’t qualified to be on the board. Fact No. 3: The Burisma executives asked him, ‘Can you help us with the pressure we are facing?’ Fact No. 4: Joe Biden gets [Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin] fired — leverages American tax dollars to accomplish that,” he said.
“And then what does the [Attorney General Merrick] Garland Justice Department do?” Jordan wondered aloud.
“They try to sweep it under the rug, so much so that they allowed the statute of limitations to lapse for the most serious … felony tax concerns Hunter Biden had in 2014 and 2015. They let it lapse because those were the years that dealt with the Burisma income,” he noted further.
Last month, ahead of the historic vote on Tuesday to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), which Jordan did not support, he called for his party to focus on winning some policies rather than squabbling over budget items.
During an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo, Jordan noted that there’s less than a week until the government funding deadline. The House has only introduced four appropriations bills to establish the government’s budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. There are eight more that have yet to move forward.
The Ohio Republican also suggested possibly including something in a spending bill that may eliminate or reduce funding for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s operation.
“Well, there’s been, there’s been a fight over the number. What level we’re actually going to fund at? Look, I want to reduce spending too. I know what the debt problem is. But in a divided government, there’s been a number that’s agreed on to fund the government,” Jordan said.
“And frankly, it’s less than the year before, which is, which is a huge step when you got divided when, when, when we control one-half of one-third of the government by five votes. And we’ve actually got to negotiate a number that’s less than Joe Biden and the Democrats spent last year. I think that’s a win. So let’s hold on to that number if we can. There’s some, there’s some debate within our conference, and I get that, let’s hold on to that number if we can. But let’s win the policies,” he added.
“The other policy frankly, we should consider putting on these bills is the policy that says you can’t, you can’t fund the attack on your political opponent, which is exactly what Joe Biden is doing when he’s funding this Jack Smith operation going after his political opponent,” Jordan continued.
Jordan also spoke about the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Since President Joe Biden took office, an estimated two million immigrants have entered the country and been released.
According to the most recent report from Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency program dedicated to combating illegal border crossings along the Texas border, over 457,500 illegal immigrant apprehensions have occurred since March 2021.
“Maria, if we say no money can be used to process or release any new migrants into the country, we’re going to stop it, we’re going to fix the problem, we send it over there, and Chuck Schumer says no to it, then he’s in essence saying it’s more important to shut down the government than it is to secure our border,” he said. “I don’t think the American people are there.”
