No matter what special counsel John Durham has found about the investigation of former President Donald Trump in his first campaign, Democrats will continue to go after Trump, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan said Wednesday, while opening the Capitol Hill hearing for testimony from Durham.
"The Democrats will say, 'We don't care. It doesn't matter. We're never going to stop going after President Trump,'" Jordan said.
Jordan pointed out Trump's federal indictment on charges in connection with the classified documents being kept at his home, and said that "this shouldn't surprise us."
"They told us their objective," said Jordan. "In fact, it was an agent on the case of Crossfire Hurricane who told us what their objective was. We all remember the text message from [former FBI agent] Peter Strzok, when he said, 'Don't worry. We'll stop Trump.'
"But now, there is an indictment of a former president, who's winning in every single poll, by his opponents at the Justice Department."
And between those two events, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the latest indictment, there was the Robert Mueller investigation, two impeachments, and "51 former intelligence officers falsely telling us Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation," said Jordan.
Then there was the raid on Trump's home and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's "ridiculous case in New York," said Jordan.
"Seven years and nothing has changed," Jordan, pointing to how Trump's home was raided by the FBI rather than working with his attorneys to go through the documents there.
"Nothing has changed, and frankly, they're never going to stop," said Jordan. "Seven years of attacking Trump is scary enough. But what's more frightening? Any one of us could be next."
Durham, in his report, revealed how eager the FBI was to use allegations in a dossier connecting Trump and Russia, and to use the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to "spy on an American citizen associated with the presidential campaign," said Jordan.
"He told us there was no proper predicate for opening the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and maybe, most importantly, he told us the FBI, the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world, failed in its fundamental mission of adherence to the rule of law."
And now, nobody is safe from investigations from the FBI, as parents at school board meetings are considered as "terrorists," pro-life Catholics are "extremists," and journalists aren't safe, said Jordan.
"But guess who gets it the worst?" he said. "Whistleblowers. If you dare come forward and tell Congress what's going on, look out. They will come for you. They will take your clearance. They will take your pay. They'll even take your kids' clothes. Just ask Garrett O'Boyle, who testified in front of this committee as well."
Jordan said Republicans in the House are committed to work to change the FISA law and "do everything we can in the appropriations process to stop the federal government from going after the American people."
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