'Hypocrisy is their currency': Jim Jordan gets burned by ex-GOP rep. for double standard

House Republicans are advancing toward a criminal contempt of Congress referral for Hunter Biden over his lack of compliance with a subpoena in their investigation — even though he made clear he would testify to them as long as he got to do it in public, and even though several Republican lawmakers, like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), refused to comply with subpoenas themselves, from the House January 6 Select Committee.

The double standard was not lost on former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL), a Trump-skeptic former Republican turned critic of the whole party, who weighed in on the whole controversy on MSNBC Thursday evening.

"It's embarrassing, David, because you know, first of all, they're saying this guy is in contempt of Congress because he wouldn't come and go before a behind-closed-doors meeting with us because he wants to testify in public," said anchor Joy Reid. "Which you would think they would want if they had anything on the president. That's number one. Number two, as [Rep.] Eric Swalwell pointed out, they have got members who refused subpoenas. 600 some odd days later, Jim Jordan is still in defiance of a congressional subpoena."

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"How can you say we want our subpoenas to be, you know, we want you to comply with our subpoenas when we ourselves don't comply with subpoenas?" Reid asked.

"Because it's the Republicans — hypocrisy is their currency," said Jolly. "So look, I think what we're seeing in the Hunter Biden, you know, strategy, if you will, is he is clearly subscribing to the notion if you can't win the process, win the story. So he's not going to win the process. Republicans have the votes. But he can win the story. Which is exactly what we're talking about. This is someone who is trying to comply."

"I think we're also seeing a legal strategy," he continued. "One of the things that [Hunter Biden's attorney] Abbe Lowell said — they sent five different letters to the committee saying, we'll do it this way or how about this way, and they got no response. Congress is going to hold Hunter Biden in contempt and make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice. DOJ doesn't really want to take criminal referrals, but they especially don't want to take this one where we have publicly seen Hunter Biden try to comply. This is a legal defense, but it also is a political and public defense, saying, I might lose the process, but I'm going to win the story."

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