Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan called for a House Judiciary investigation into the FBI’s alleged role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story on Twitter.
The representative told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday that the House Judiciary Committee is “committed” to investigating Big Tech and the government for allegedly withholding information from the American people. This call followed the termination of former FBI lawyer James Baker for purportedly holding up the release of documents connected to how the platform dealt with the Hunter Biden laptop report.
“This just shows Big Tech, big media, big government working together to keep information from we the people. That’s the problem,” Jordan said. “And what I’m committed to doing, what the Republican members on the Judiciary Committee are committed to do, is get into the FBI’s role in all this, those weekly briefings they were doing with Big Tech on the heels of that letter from 51 former Intel officials that said it was a Russian disinformation operation. Baloney, they knew it was baloney and yet they were doing these briefings. So that’s the big problem.”
Jordan pointed to the alleged political bias of Baker, who apparently personally knew Michael Sussman, a lawyer for Perkins Coie, in the midst of the Durham report. The report alleged lawyers from a firm enlisted by the Clinton campaign paid a tech firm to gain access to private servers at Trump Tower and the White House. (RELATED: ‘The News Was Fake’: Rep. Jim Jordan Takes Shots At The Media For Disavowing Hunter Biden’s Laptop)
“This guy’s got connections throughout this,” Jordan said. “We’ll just have to wait and see what Bari Weiss and others uncover, and what Elon Musk continues to release.”
A recent New York Post article reported the FBI’s warning to Twitter’s former head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, of a potential “hack-and-leak” operation by “state actors” to interfere in the then-upcoming 2020 presidential election. The conversations took place during weekly meetings with the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security.
Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi, who released the “Twitter Files” along with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, said there is no evidence of FBI involvement in Twitter’s suppression of a report on the younger Biden’s laptop in October 2020. Jordan argued the FBI has at least “indirectly” been involved in the suppression of the laptop story and U.S. elections more broadly, despite Taibbi suggesting otherwise.
“When is the FBI just gonna stay out of elections? In 2016, they spied on President Trump’s campaign, 2018 was the Mueller investigation, 2020, they were doing these briefings to suppress the Hunter Biden story, that led to the suppression of the Hunter Biden story. 2022, 91 days before the election, they raid President Trump’s home, and then a couple weeks ago, three days after President Trump announces he’s running for the White House in 2024, they name a special counsel who’s going to harass him for the next two years,” Jordan said.
“Maybe it’d be nice, if they just let we the people, let the American people decide who we want to be president, who we want representing us in the United States Congress. Just let the people decide, stay out of it for goodness sake,” he continued.