February 14, 2022
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio said that Donald Trump was âright on targetâ when he suggested Hillary Clintonâs operatives should be executed after she was accused of treason by the former president.
Trump launched a blistering attack on Clinton on Saturday after special counsel John Durham said his team had spied on his White House servers to find ties to Russia so as to smear him.
Trump argued Durhamâs report was even more shocking than Watergate and demanded that everyone involved should be prosecuted and executed if possible.
âIn a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death,â Trump said.
In an appearance on Fox & Friends, Jordan backed Trumpâs statement.
âWeâve never seen anything like this in history,â Jordan exclaimed. âSo President Trumpâs statement yesterday, I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened in the history of our great country.â
Jordan continued by saying that the âspyingâ was âworse than [we] thought.â
As CNN revealed last week, a committee investigating the January 6, 2021 violence had obtained call records that showed Trump was in communication with Jordan for at least 10 minutes the morning of the attack.
As a result of Jordan refusing to be interviewed, the committee is debating whether or not to subpoena him.
âI talked to the President a number of times that day, but I donât remember the times,â Jordan explained to CNN.
Other official documents including call logs were turned over to House committees after the Supreme Court rejected Trumpâs appeal for them to remain confidential.
âPresident Trump was right. Remember in 2017, when President Trump said they [Democrats] were spying on me and all the press and all the Democrats said no, they werenât and then in 2019, then-Attorney-General Bill Barr said spying took placeâŠâ Jordan said on Sunday on Fox & Friends.
âWell, now we know for sureâŠYes, there was spying going on, and it was worse than we thought because they were spying on the sitting President of the United States.â
âWe do know this, John Durham is going right back to the startâŠIt is all about the lies that started in 2016 when they started all this concerted effort to go after a Presidential campaign. Thatâs whatâs so frightening here,â Jordan continued.
In a statement Sunday, Trump compared the alleged spying to the Watergate scandal that led to Nixonâs fall.
âWhat Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left Democrats did with respect to spying on a President of the United States, even while in office, is a far bigger crime than Watergate,â Trump declared.
âIt will be interesting to see how it was covered by the media and what Mitch McConnell and the RINOs will be doing about it. This is an insult to the Republican Party, but a far greater insult to our Nation.â
Following Durhamâs court filing explaining the alleged hack, Trump unleashed a scathing response on Sunday, saying that Team Clintonâs behavior once would have merited execution.
âIn a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.â
On Twitter, Donald Trump Jr. echoed what his father had said, writing: âBREAKING: Donald Trump and the RNC funded SIGINT collection AGAINST the Executive Office of the President of the United States, just like the Russians do. This is TREASON!
âJust kidding, it was Hillary Clinton and a big tech executive. Durham is coming.â
It is alleged that Clinton kept a tech firm on staff to âinfiltrateâ servers at the Trump Tower and White House.
The purpose was to smear Trump by linking him to Russia, according to a filing by Special Counsel John Durham.
In October 2020, while Trump was president, Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham to serve as the Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice. Investigators continue to look into a case that may anger supporters of the 45th president.
A motion filed by Durham on Friday looked at a potential conflict of interest regarding former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who has been accused of telling a false story to federal agents. Sussman has entered a not guilty plea.
Kash Patel, the former chief investigator of the House Intelligence Committeeâs investigation into Trump-Russia, said Fridayâs filing âdefinitively showed the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,â Fox News reports.
âPer Durham, this arrangement was put in motion in July of 2016, meaning the Hillary Clinton campaign and her lawyers masterminded the most intricate and coordinated conspiracy against Trump when he was both a candidate and later president of the United States while simultaneously perpetuating the bogus Steele Dossier hoax,â Patel explained to Fox.
In the indictment, Sussman is accused of telling FBI General Counsel James Baker two months prior to the election of President Donald Trump that he was not working âfor anyoneâ when he presented papers allegedly describing a âcovert communications channelâ between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, the largest of the private banks in Russia with ties to the Kremlin.
SOURCE: The Republic Brief