Jim Jordan Blasted For Dodging Congressional Subpoena For 500 Days

On May 12th, 2022, Republican Representative Jim Jordan was issued a subpoena by the House Select Committee that was investigating the events of January 6th. Today is the 500th day since that subpoena was issued, and Jordan never complied, and the Committee never even held him accountable. This fact was brought up during a recent House hearing this past week after Republicans suggested that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be held in Contempt of Congress. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan this past week got slapped around a little bit by Eric Swalwell during Jordan's own hearing, where they were supposed to be grilling Attorney General Merrick Garland about the alleged politicization of the Justice Department. But instead it was Jim Jordan who was reminded about all of the privilege that he has been the recipient of as a Republican member of Congress. Here's what happened. First, you had Republican Congressman Thomas Massey, and Massey was just trying to go after Merrick Garland, asking about the Hunter Biden investigation. Tell us what, you know, what is going on. Tell us all of this. And Garland calmly was like, well, I, I actually can't 'cause that's an ongoing Justice Department investigation, and I actually, uh, it, it's not allowed for me to tell all the facts of that. And that Massey off. So Massey says, quote, aren't you, in fact, in contempt of Congress when you give us this answer, this is an answer that's appropriate at a press conference.

Well, that kind of set Eric Swalwell off. So then when it was time for Eric Swalwell to do his questioning of Merrick Garland, he decided to flip the script on Thomas Massey by calling out Jim Jordan, who should have been held in contempt of Congress. Here's what Swalwell said. My colleague just said, you should be held in contempt of Congress. And that is quite rich because the guy who's leading the hearing room right now, Mr. Jordan, is about 500 days into evading his subpoena. So if we're going to talk about contempt of Congress, let's get real. Are you serious that Jim Jordan, a witness to one of the greatest crimes ever committed in America, a crime where more prosecutions ever occurred than any crime committed in America refuses to help his country and we're going to get lectured about subpoena compliance and contempt of Congress?

Here's what Swalwell is referring to. On May 12th of the year 2022, Jim Jordan was issued a subpoena by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot, and Trump's attempts to overturn the election results. So May 12th, 2022, Jim Jordan receives that subpoena. He continued to not comply with the subpoena. They were seeking some of his communications because they know on the day of January 6th, Jim Jordan had been in touch with Donald Trump multiple times. They wanted those records. They wanted to know if Trump was telling Jim Jordan, this is what you have to do in Congress, you have to stall, you have to obstruct, yada yada. They wanted answers to whether or not that's what was happening. And the committee never got compliance from Jim Jordan. You know, Peter Navarro was actually just convicted of not complying with a subpoena for the same type of thing with the January 6th select committee. Um, but anyway, so

Obviously at the end of the year, the committee has to disband because that Congress was disbanding and Republicans were taking over. So the committee issued their final report and was like, Hey, by the way, Jim Jordan never complied. And today, today is actually the 500th day since that subpoena was issued to Jim Jordan and he never complied. Obviously at this point he can't comply because the committee no longer exists, but 500 days. And Jim Jordan did not comply with that subpoena, and he was never punished for not complying with that subpoena either. So, Jim Jordan can rewind and cry about the politicization of the D O J all he wants, but the fact is the D O J could have and should have hit him with criminal charges just like Peter Navarro. I mean, hell at this point, based on Navarro's, uh, trial schedule, Jim Jordan could have already been convicted at this point, but that never happened.