Bash Presses Jordan on Indictments: ‘So This Is Retribution Then’

Bash presses Jordan on indictments: ‘So this is retribution then’

CNN’s Dana Bash pressed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan on whether President Donald Trump’s public pressure on the Justice Department to pursue indictments for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James was “retribution.”

Jim Jordan: DOJ ‘Applying Facts’ on Comey, James

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan on Sunday defended the Justice Department and rejected claims that the recent indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James amount to political retribution on behalf of President Donald Trump. "This is our Justice Department under the leadership of the attorney general applying the facts to the law, like you are supposed to," the Ohio Republican insisted in a…

Jim Jordan defends DOJ's Comey indictment as 'entirely appropriate'

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) confirmed Sunday that he is “comfortable” with the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.  “You cannot argue with the fact Jim Comey said one thing under oath in front of the United States Congress. That‘s what he‘s being charged with: false statements to the Congress, 18 U.S.C. 1001,” Jordan said on CNN’s State of the Union.  Comey’s charges concern a September 2020 hearing, during which he denied authorizing anon…