GOP Rep. Jim Jordan spars with Chuck Todd over classified docs and FBI
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Rep. Jim Jordan argued that federal agencies are handling President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump’s classified documents cases in different ways, leading to a heated exchange with host Chuck Todd on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday.
Jordan, during the interview, suggested that there is an double standard between the discovery of classified documents held by Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and Biden’s vice presidential papers found at his Delaware home and a Washington office.
The Republican lawmaker, who now leads the House Judiciary Committee, accused the FBI and other agencies of being “weaponized”: “The FBI raided the home of a former president 91 days before an election, took the phone of a sitting member of Congress, and on and on.”
Todd pushed back, saying “there was nine months between the initial action… the [National] Archives requested documents before they even turned it over to the Justice Department. The subpoena was issued 60 days before they actually executed a subpoena.”
“And more importantly, the only time the public found out about it is because Donald Trump told the public about it. This was not some sort of new painted 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,” Todd continued. “This is not some sort of proof that somehow they’ve been weaponized and playing politics.”
“They raided Trump’s home. They haven’t raided Biden’s home,” Jordan said.
“Because Biden didn’t defy a subpoena, congressman,” Todd pushed back, adding that Trump had 60 days to comply before the FBI executed a search warrant.
Chuck Todd pushes back on Jim Jordan: ‘Biden didn’t defy a subpoena’
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