'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."...
