Jim Jordan Decides To Let Congress Interfere With Georgia's Trump Prosecution

Congressman Jim Jordan has decided to interfere with the prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia, and just hours before the former president turned himself in, the Chair of the Judiciary Committee sent a letter to district attorney Fani Willis requesting all sorts of privileged information. Jordan has absolutely no shame, and his antics should be investigated as he is directly interfering with a prosecution - and that should be considered obstruction of justice. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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On Thursday, shortly before Donald Trump turned himself into the Fulton County Jail, Jim Jordan, Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, letting her know that he wants every document, every piece of information that she has regarding the investigation and the forthcoming prosecution of Donald Trump and the 18 other co-defendants. Let me rephrase that a bit. Jim Jordan, powerful Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, made it very clear that he is interfering with the prosecution, a state level prosecution of the former President of the United States because he got his feelings hurt. And that's that. Obviously, this is not the first time that Jim Jordan has made such a ridiculous request. He did the same thing with Alvin Bragg up in New York when Bragg announced that he was gonna be indicting Donald Trump. Jim Jordan said, oh, hell no, not on my watch. Let me go ahead and issue you a letter. Give me all your materials. But this one with Georgia is particularly disturbing. Let me read you what Jim Jordan put in his letter. The timing of this prosecution reinforces concerns about your motivation. You did not bring charges until two and a half years later at a time when the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is in full swing. Moreover, you have requested that the trial in this matter begin on March 4th, 2024, the day before Super Tuesday, at eight days before the Georgia Presidential primary.

I imagine he's writing that with tears in his eyes. Listen, the reason she didn't just immediately file charges against Donald Trump on January 7th, 2021 is because that's not how investigations work. You have to have an investigation. You have to talk to witnesses, you have to gather evidence. And Jim, I don't know if you've been paying attention to what's been happening in Georgia for the last two years. Uh, she had the special grand jury, and while she had the special grand jury imp paneled, what happened, Jim, all your little Republican buddies kept objecting to all of her subpoenas, all of her requests. So that had to work its way through the court system, and it took forever. And then the judges had to decide, and then that was appealed, and then those judges had to make a decision. So had it not been for your party members of your party trying to delay, delay, delay, delay, we probably would've had these indictments earlier this year. Hell, we could already be finished with the trial by this point had it not been for your people. So don't sit there and act like, why did it take you so long to do this? Because she was thorough.

She, she had to do everything she

Had to, to do, and she did it all by the book. Further down in his letter, Jim Jordan also makes the accusation that maybe now he has no evidence to back it up, but what if he says, what if Vonnie Willis was somehow communicating with Jack Smith, the special prosecutor? Well, first and foremost, um, there's no evidence to suggest that Fannie Willis has made it clear she's had no communications with Jack Smith. But let's assume for a second that she did. Okay, so what, what, what's the problem with that? They, that's the thing. You make this accusation in your letter. You're like, she may have been talking to him, but you don't exactly explain like why that's not allowed. Right? One prosecutor to another, you're both investigating the same guy. Communication between the two investigations would actually be very common. I'm kind of shocked it didn't happen, right?

I mean, you're going after him. I'm going after him. Do, do, do we have any evidence that we need to, you know, share with each other? 'cause that's a thing that can't happen, by the way. So why would it be a bad thing? It wouldn't. Jim Jordan's got nothing, but Jim Jordan is actively trying to interfere in this investigation to save Donald Trump's behind and the behinds of those 18 other people, which Jim Jordan probably doesn't care too much about mainly the Trump thing.