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Jordan Torches Todd: Not Worried About China, I’m Worried About Biden and China

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Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan torched MSNBC host Chuck Todd over national security concerns involving President Joe Biden after classified documents were found in his possession.

During an interview on Meet The Press, Jordan spoke about sensitive documents being discovered in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home as well as his think tank. There are also questions surrounding a lack of transparency on why the U.S. Secret Service apparently does not have any visitor logs from Biden’s Delaware home

Jordan vowed that House Republicans would “get to the bottom” of it and hold investigations of their own. He also spoke about Trump being treated much differently than Biden and even Clinton when she came under fire over her private email server scandal.

“Many of the things you want to investigate, when I look at them in isolation, I think they’re fair targets,” Todd said. “I think they’re fair things for you to be questioning. The problem that when you look at it is you want to talk about the weaponization of the Justice Department, you don’t want to look at anything that happened during the Trump years. If you are concerned about the weaponization of the Justice Department in the Biden years, why not investigate the Trump years?” Todd asked.

“We’re going to look at threats to the First Amendment,” Jordan said. “We’re going to look at … what Elon Musk through the Twitter Files has displayed is unbelievable.”

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Jordan then asked Todd, “Do you think it’s okay for the FBI be meeting every week and suppressing information, suppressing the Hunter Biden server which we know is true? Do you think that’s all right?

“That’s a private organization that made this decision,” Todd replied.

“With pressure from the government,” Jordan said. “That’s the point. I can understand a private organization can do it. I don’t think it’s right. But there shouldn’t be pressure from the government.

“In 2016, they spied on Trump’s campaign,” Jordan said. “2018 was the Mueller Investigation. 2020, they helped suppress the Hunter Biden story. 2022, they raid the home of a former president 91 days before an election.”

Todd challenged Jordan on the idea that Trump wasn’t given a fair shake.

“You keep talking about this raid on Donald Trump,” Todd said. “The amount of time…there was nine months between the initial action that the archives made for requests of documents before they even turned it over to the Justice Department. The subpoena was issued 60 days before they actually executed the subpoena. And more importantly, the only time the public found out about is because Donald Trump told the public about it. You paint it 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. This is not some sort of proof that somehow that they’ve weaponized and playing politics over here.”

“They raided Trump’s home.” Jordan said. “They haven’t raided Biden’s home.”

“Because Biden didn’t defy a subpoena, Congressman!” Todd shot back. “[Trump] defied a subpoena.”

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“President Trump had documents locked in a room with Secret Service protecting them while President Biden had documents in his garage and in a think tank that was funded by the Chinese,” Jordan replied. “I think there’s a difference.”

The NBC News political director then called out Jordan — accusing him of applying a double standard.

“You do not seem to ever see the same conspiratorial problems when it’s a Republican,” Todd said.

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Republican Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is demanding the logs and more answers.

The Justice Department has appointed Special Counsel Robert Hur to lead the investigation into Biden’s classified documents case.

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