“It amounts to an unprecedented and inappropriate demand to examine the basis for a colleague’s decision on a particular matter pending before the House of Representatives,” the Ohio Republican wrote in a Sunday letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the committee.
In the letter, Jordan stated the Committee is not “conducting a fair-minded and objective inquiry” because it has not publicly requested information from Democratic members. He pointed the finger at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for failing to do more to ensure a strong security posture at the Capitol before the attack.
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“Your attempt to pry into the deliberative process informing a Member about legislative matters before the House is an outrageous abuse of the Select Committee’s authority,” Jordan expressed, warning that it would “set a dangerous precedent for future Congresses.”
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The House Committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021 riot in the U.S. Capitol requested that Jordan voluntarily cooperate with the Committee on December 22. Jordan was initially selected by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit as a member of the panel. However, in an unprecedented move, Pelosi vetoed McCarthy’s picks of Jordan and Indiana Rep. Jim Banks. That prompted McCarthy to pull his thee other picks, leaving only Democratic-appointed members on the Committee
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In a letter to Jordan, the Jan. 6 Committee noted it wanted to speak with the congressman from Ohio about his possible multiple conversations with Trump that day, as well as his communications with those in the Willard War Room, the Trump legal team, White House personnel, and others involved in planning Jan. 6 events.
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In October, Jordan said at a Committee hearing that he had talked to Trump at least once that day, after the attack happened, and may have talked to him before.
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The Committee also wanted to know about Jordan’s involvement in what it called “strategies for overturning the results of the 2020 election.” “At the time of the security breach of the Capitol, I was present in the House chamber performing my official duties pursuant to the U.S. Constitution and federal law. The other topics referenced in your letter likewise relate to the performance of official duties,” Jordan said.
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Jordan railed against the Committee for erroneously stating that former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was in Washington, D.C., on January 5 when he was actually in New York; for misrepresenting and altering a text message that Jordan had sent former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; and for misportraying another text message to Meadows as being from a lawmaker when it was from former Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
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