'Of course not': Jim Jordan says he has no confidence in FBI probe into assassination plot
Donald Trump ally Rep. Jim Jordan appeared on the right-wing media company Newsmax on Tuesday evening to cast doubt on federal law enforcement efforts to investigate an assassination plot against Trump in South Florida.
Ryan Routh was apprehended by the Secret Service after authorities said he tried to attack Trump at his Mar-a-Lago property with a high-powered rifle. Federal prosecutors initially charged him with unlawful gun possession as a felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Trump has accused prosecutors of deliberately lowballing the charges for political reasons.
Asked whether he has been satisfied with the Department of Justice's efforts to prosecute Routh, Jordan agreed with the former president.
"No, of course not," he told Greta Van Susteren on "The Record."
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Jordan blasted FBI "retaliation" against whistleblowers who came forward to his subcommittee the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
He said their lives were made a "living hell," including revoked security clearances, and called it a "problem" that the FBI special agent in charge of the assassination investigation at the agency's Miami field office has been tied to those retaliation efforts.
"Should we be surprised? I don't think we should be surprised that the same FBI that spied on Trump's campaign; the same FBI that said, 'If you're a parent showing up at a school board meeting, you need investigating; the same FBI that said if you're a pro-life Catholic you're an extremist; the same FBI that can't tell us who leaked the Dobbs decision, who put the pipe bombs on Jan. 6 at the Capitol and who put cocaine at the White House." said Jordan.
He added: "Should we be surprised that that FBI retaliates against whistleblowers who come give us information?"
That, he said, will be the topic of a scheduled hearing Tuesday.
Jordan said he doesn't believe Americans have "a whole lot of confidence" in Attorney General Merrick Garland's words.
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