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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has provided a substantial update to his investigation into President Joe Biden’s family dealings, particularly the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
During an interview on Fox News, Jordan spoke with host Maria Bartiromo about alleged FBI “whistleblowers” who have been working with House Republicans for several months.
“Tell me about the whistleblowers. How many whistleblowers are you interviewing and are they going to come public?” Bartiromo asked Jordan.
“We’ve talked to three of them. Those are the ones we’ve actually who were willing to come public and sit down for a transcribed interview. There are actually a couple of dozen others who are having been willing to come public. They have met with our staff. Our staff has interviewed them. But if they’re willing to come public, then we’ll do what we call a transcribed interview, similar to a deposition which is under oath. And you ask them questions, you get the transcript and everything else. Three of them have done that, and we’ve learned some very valuable information from those three, like what I just described that Mr. O’Boyle told us about how that threat tag was used and actually began to be turned and go after pro-lifers,” Jordan responded.
“We’re going to focus on the attacks on the First Amendment and a number of areas there, whether DHS and the Disinformation Governance Board, what we saw from the FBI coordinating and colluding with big tech to suppress information and shape and mold the narrative, we’re going to look at all that. We’re also going to look at this disparate treatment, this different standard that we see from the FBI, where they treat pro-lifers one way and then protesters a different way in other areas as well. We’re going to kind of focus there and then we’re going to look to propose legislation. And in the end, the real power of Congress, the real power of the legislative branch, is the power of the purse. And we’re going to have to use that both on all this issue where we think the government’s been targeting the very people it’s supposed to serve,” he added.
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Last week, Jordan made a major discovery of sorts as he and the panel he leads continue probes into alleged politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, the Ohio Republican said he has found there is a “central theme” to all such investigations into federal government corruption, especially when under Democratic control.
“With all these things that we start to investigate, it seems to me that the central theme is — the only thing we get wrong is — it’s always worse than we thought,” Jordan said, adding that he hopes some Democrats will work with the GOP majority to root out corruption and hold leaders accountable, Fox News reported.
In the interview, Jordan detailed the various investigations currently being undertaken by the House Judiciary Committee and his Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government in the 118th Congress.
“We thought the government was pressuring Big Tech to do certain things on the Hunter Biden story, and then, the Twitter files come out, and we’re like, ‘Oh, it’s worse than we thought,’” Jordan said.
“We thought that it was likely that COVID came from a lab and turns out, yep, it was,” Jordan said, in reference to the Energy Department and FBI Director Christopher Wray saying last week that the coronavirus likely originated from a lab leak in Wuhan.
“The whole Trump-Russia thing, we find out they knew the dossier was false but used it,” Jordan went on.
“There are just examples after examples where it is actually worse than we initially assumed upon opening investigations,” Jordan added. “You look at all of these things, and different agencies targeting the American people who they are supposed to serve — whether it is the CDC or the DOJ and FBI and social media companies taking down things and limiting speech. And Democrats always seem to just move on.”
In December, Jordan said he believes the ongoing federal investigation of Hunter Biden is about to take a big step forward after recent developments.
The Ohio Republican suggested “something is up” with the probe because of the uptick in interest in the story by many of the same media outlets that initially dismissed reports of corruption evidence stemming from materials and emails obtained from a laptop he reportedly abandoned at a computer repair store in Delaware in 2019.
“It sure looks like Joe Biden was involved,” Jordan added. “So, my, how this story has changed. And now, we find out these text messages and emails that link the entire family, not just Hunter and Joe and — but also uncle, the — Joe’s brother, James Biden, is involved in this as well.”
