{"id":1145966,"date":"2021-12-23T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145966"},"modified":"2021-12-23T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:34:11","slug":"exclusive-jim-jordan-january-6-committee-is-the-weaponization-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-jim-jordan-january-6-committee-is-the-weaponization-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Jim Jordan: January 6 Committee Is &#039;the Weaponization of Government&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-jim-jordan-january-6-committee-is-the-weaponization-of-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke to Breitbart News on Sunday at Turning Point USA\u2019s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, where he told Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow the January 6 Committee is \u201cthe weaponization of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years ago it was the IRS targeting folks,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cFive years ago it was the FBI going to the secret FISA court, altering documents, taking it to the court to get a warrant to go spy on President Trump\u2019s campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTwo months ago, it was the department of justice saying we are going to use counter terrorism measures at the FBI to go after moms and dads who are speaking up at school board meetings,\u201d the congressman continued.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan went on to say \u201cwhen you try to chill the speech of parents for simply showing up to school board meetings and saying, \u2018We don\u2019t want this curriculum, this racist, hate America&nbsp;curriculum taught to our kids,\u2019 that is as wrong as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19239914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1353889252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19239914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1353889252-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) listens during a House Coronavirus Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on November 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. The hearing was held to discuss monetization of misinformation surrounding Covid-19. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty )<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The congressman was referring to the&nbsp;Biden Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) intention to direct the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose Critical Race Theory and mask mandates in schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then this past week, it was, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re going to weaponize the contempt power of Congress\u2019 to try to put a good man \u2014 a friend of mine \u2014 Mark Meadows, in prison,\u201d Jordan added of the weaponization of government. \u201cIt\u2019s all designed to go after President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan added Meadows \u201cdid not wrong, but they\u2019re going after him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shows the intense lust for power and attacks that the left wants to put on their political opponents,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous. It is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had executive privilege since 1794, when George Washington first asserted it,\u201d Jordan added. \u201cAnd it exists \u2014 not for protection of the president, not for protection of the chief of staff or the White House counsel \u2014 it exists so that we the people benefit, the country benefits by having this candid conversation between the president and his top advisors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the full interview below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/matt-perdie\/\">Matt Perdie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and Twitter at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke to Breitbart News on Sunday at Turning Point USA\u2019s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, where he told Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow the January 6 Committee is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}