Jim Jordan Gets Slammed By Prosecutor During Sham Hearing

Former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz sat in front of Jim Jordan's Judiciary Committee for roughly 6 hours last week as he was being questioned about the goings on at the Manhattan DA's office. Pomerantz could have absolutely wrecked Jordan, but chose instead to take only a few shots, but those shots were absolutely devastating to Jordan. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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So last Friday, mark Pomerance, the, uh, former prosecutor at the Manhattan DA's office, who, as we all know, uh, very publicly and famously resigned last year after Alvin Ba Bragg refused to go after Donald Trump. He has a book out explaining everything that was happening at the time and why he's so off at Bragg. But he was subpoenaed recently, as we all know, by Jim Jordan with the House Judiciary Committee. And even after Alvin Bragg tried to block the subpoena and a judge said, no, Pomerance decided, you know what? I'm gonna show up. I'm gonna do this. And on Friday, excuse me, he sat for six hours, six hours behind closed doors, of course, cuz they didn't want this one on tv in case j uh, uh, Pomerance, excuse me, um, revealed all of the other Trump crimes that he talked about in his book.

So we had to be very careful. The Republicans thought to make sure we don't make Trump look bad. So we're gonna do this big old hearing without the cameras present. So there's major red flag number one for you. But during his six hour testimony to that house Judiciary committee to talk about the so-called weaponization of the justice system against Donald Trump, specifically, Pomerance actually didn't say much. Now as I had said, I expected Pomerance to basically go in there, uh, you know, metaphorical guns blazing and just laying out all the crimes that he allegedly uncovered, that Trump allegedly committed. He decided not to go that route, even though he did take a couple shots at both the committee and of course, specifically Jim Jordan pointing out some potentially criminal behavior in Jim Jordan's past Pomerance for the most part, pleaded the fifth and gave very short, non-committal answers to most of the questions. But here is how he opened up his six hour testimony. This deposition is for show, we're gathered here because Donald Trump's supporters would like to use these proceedings to attempt to obstruct and undermine the criminal case pending against him and to harass, intimidate and discredit anyone who investigates or charges him. This is neither the time nor place for me to answer questions about the investigation or the pending indictment over the objection of the prosecutors.

And once it was all said and done, Republicans were off. Uh, Republican Darrell Isis said quote, I've never had a more obstructive and less cooperative witness in my over 20 years in Congress. Matt Gates said that we're not getting many answers. Jim Jordan only had this to say. He said, I guess in some ways I was surprised at some of the positions he took and that was the end of it. And we didn't see these Republicans going out there on the Sunday morning talk shows, cuz again, this happened on Friday. They weren't going out there on the Sunday morning talk shows saying, oh, we got Alvin Bragg. Paul Morants gave us everything. They're very tight lipped about it because it did not go the way that they wanted it to.

And I'm willing to bet that there was one specific part that Jim Jordan did not think was gonna happen. And that was the point when Mark Pomerance decided to bring up the fact that Jim Jordan himself, the chair of the committee, actually defied a subpoena. Just one year ago when the House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot sent a subpoena to Jordan and said, you have to come and testify to us even though you're a member of the house where this committee sits. We have to issue you a subpoena because you have refused to voluntarily come and talk to us about what you knew, because we know you were involved with some discussions with the White House.

Jim Jordan simply didn't comply with the subpoena. He did not show up, he did not testify. And by all accounts, that is a crime. It is illegal to ignore a subpoena from a, uh, uh, an investigatory body that actually has legal authority, which that special select committee did have. So Pomerantz brought that up and threw it right back in Jim Jordan's face. Like, Hey, listen, I know I didn't wanna sit here with this subpoena, but let's not forget Buddy, boy, he didn't call him buddy.