Swalwell Puts Jim Jordan On Blast Over Subpoena Hypocrisy
During a Judiciary Committee Subcommittee meeting on Responsiveness and Accountability To Oversight, California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell called out Rep. Jim Jordan's hypocrisy on subpoenas to Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA). And we all remember how Republicans treated subpoenas when a bipartisan committee was investigating one of the worst domestic attacks in U.S. history, and this one involved an attempted coup.
Jordan defied a subpoena last year, but now he will issue a flurry of them.
"I think it's quite rich that we are talking about subpoena compliance under a chairman of the full committee who was absolutely out of subpoena compliance in the last congress," Swalwell said.
"So we're gonna call witnesses in here today and claim that they did not comply with subpoenas or requests, and that request is so rich because it's coming from a chairman who himself did not comply with the January six committees request," he said.
Swalwell recalled that Jordan was repeatedly asked to comply with the Jan. 6 committee's subpoena and failed to do so.
"You were a witness to a crime," Swalwell said. You were a witness to the greatest crime ever committed with the most criminals ever indicted in America. Will you help your country? Will you comply with that subpoena?"
There was "no compliance," Swalwell continued.
"Crickets, absolute defiance of the subpoena," he added.