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Both House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) are being accused of committing obstruction of justice as they deploy retribution measures to combat the conviction of former President Donald Trump.
"What Mike Johnson and yammering Jim Jordan are doing now isn't legislating," said former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner in his latest YouTube episode of "Justice Matters." "Not that Jim Jordan would know the first thing about legislating."
"And it certainly isn't legitimate Congressional oversight — no it's obstructing justice plain and simple. Obstructing justice you know to try to help out their orange deity Donald Trump."
Speaker Johnson presented a "three-pronged approach" of oversight, funding, and legislation, and honed in on ways to cut federal funding that House Judiciary Chair Jordan has proposed to the Appropriations Committee.
“And that, at the end of the day, is something that should concern every single one of us," Johnson said, rebuking the verdict and the treatment of Trump who remains the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
Kirschner made note that the supposed "weaponized" Department of Justice is formally trying sitting President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, on both gun charges and tax evasion. The feds are also criminally prosecuting Democrats Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) as well as Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX).
"But, you know, let's set all those facts aside," chastised Kirschner. "Let's suspend reality because Johnson and Jordan assure us the DOJ has been weaponized against Republicans and they're determined to put a stop to the FBI investigating crime and to the DOJ enforcing our nation's law."
An especially vexed Kirschner asked viewers about when the nonsense might find a conclusion.
"You know when will it end friends," he said. "Well, it'll end in November. That's when it will end. When we get out in numbers too big to rig and too real to steal — and the Dems retake the House, the Dems hold the Senate and the Dems retain the White House and then it will be accountability time not revenge, not retribution but accountability for the folks who have been violating our nation's laws with impunity."
