During a hearing this week, Jim Jordan became very belligerent and irate after it was pointed
out by Democratic representative Madeline Dean that Jim Jordan had in fact called for
defunding the F B I. Now, during this hearing, Jim Jordan was bringing up an issue where
he claims the f b I was planning to go and spy on members of a Catholic church because
they were worried that some of the extremists in that church, the pro-life extremists, uh,
may commit acts of domestic terrorism. For the record, Jim Jordan openly admitted the
F b I didn't even do this. They had thought about it and then decided not to, but just
thinking about it alone is enough to make Jim Jordan off and he went into his tirade
and then got called out and things got crazier from there. So take a look at what happened
during that hearing. Jim Jordan getting super because he got called out on his lies. Here
it is.
It seems to me that it is very clear you support defunding the fbi.
I didn't say that. I said we gotta look at one of the things we do in this, in this,
this business, in this Congress is you look at how you appropriate funds and we will have
recommendations going to the appropriations Committee about how they should use American,
the people I represent in the fourth District of Ohio, the numerous Catholics I represent
in the fourth District of Ohio, they ha they have a say in how their money is spent. We
are certainly gonna look at that. If you don't want to, if you just wanna keep sending money
to the FBI that's spying on people in church, go right ahead and take that position. The
Republicans on this committee will not, and we're gonna look at it. You may not want to,
but we do. We do. And I, I guarantee, I bet you have. I bet you have Catholics in your
district who want you to look at it. I know I do. And that's what we plan on doing with
that. I yield back to the chair.
I never said that. I never said that, but you did say that, buddy. You in fact, um,
if, if you check the link and the description of this video, you can watch the full clip
about a minute and a half before you exclaim. I never said that you actually called for
cutting funding to the F B I, not a hundred percent, but taking some of their money away.
So you not only have said it in the past, you said it right before Madeline Dean called
you out for saying it, and then you're like, I never said that, but you did.
Here's the other part of this story. As I said, Jim Jordan's all worked up over an F
B I idea that actually never even came to fruition that he got from an already discredited
whistleblower within the organization. So all of this anger and animosity is based on
something that didn't ever actually happen, which Jim Jordan also acknowledged earlier
in his tirade. You are off about a thing that wasn't real, basically. But the reason the
f b I was even considering it was based on tips that they had received. The f b I didn't
just sit there and decide, you know what? Let's go pick on a random Catholic church
today. That's not what happened, Jim, but that's how you are portraying it. That's what
you want the people of the country to think that the FBI just woke up and said, you know
what?
I'm bored. Let's throw a dart at a map of the US and wherever it lands, we'll go harass
a Catholic church. That's not what happened. They had received intelligence that there
could be credible threats against abortion clinics, and that's why they were considering
sending people in to monitor the activity taking place in that church. It wasn't an
assault on religion. They were trying to prevent an assault on the American public, but ultimately
determined that those threats that they had received or the tips were not gonna go anywhere.
So they decided against it. But we're living in a country right now. We're all day every
day. You hear from conservative media and conservative politicians that Democrats are
weak on crime, right? The Democrats are letting crime run rampant in our country, and those
very same Republicans turn around in the same breath and say, let's cut funding for the
top law enforcement agency of the United States.
So you tell me which party is being soft on crime. I mean, hell, we don't have a, uh,
former Democratic president under criminal indictment right now. We don't have a former
Democratic president that was found liable for an assault by a jury earlier this week.
We, we don't have any democratic representatives in Congress that have been indicted this week
either. Those are all Republicans. So if you're looking for the party that's soft on crime,
you need to be looking at Jim Jordan's party and asking him the same question as Madeline
Dean, which is of course, why do you want to cut funding for the nation's top law enforcement
agency.