Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) "has been bullied into submission," said MSNBC producer Steve Benen in a Friday column.
Even Fox is growing tired of the investigations into President Joe Biden and his cabinet officials that lead nowhere. Speaking to host Maria Bartiromo last week, Jordan faced off against one of his own allies, asking if the House Republicans were ever going to do what they promised.
The 2024 election is less than six months away, and after a year and a half, the majority party in the Judiciary and Reform and Oversight Committees haven't been able to make good on pledges to hold impeachment.
The oversight committee met on Thursday night, where Rep. Jered Moskowitz (D-FL) challenged chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) to finally schedule the Biden impeachment. In the background of the video showing the moment, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) can be heard saying, "We just need the evidence."
"Bartiromo was instead suggesting that Jordan and his partisan allies start launching more productive partisan probes," explained Benen.
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She wasn't the only one. Steve Bannon also demanded Jordan do something.
“We’re already working behind the scenes and we’re going to force Jordan to do that because all Jordan’s given, and you can talk to the Trump team, all he’s done is happy talk,” Bannon said a few weeks ago. He complained that so far, Jordan has had nothing more than "air balls," a mocking basketball term for shots that don't go through the basket.
So, Jordan caved, demanding the Justice Department turn over information about former employee Matthew Colangelo, who is involved in prosecuting Trump's hush money case for the Manhattan district attorney's office, Benen said.
A few weeks later, Jordan demanded the Manhattan D.A. office turn over any documents about the hiring of Colangelo, and on Thursday he made the request of Colangelo's former employer, New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Jordan says that Colangelo communicated with New York and Fulton County, Georgia, on their cases on behalf of the Democratic Party and Biden's campaign.
Benen wrote that few people know Colangelo, but allies of Donald Trump know he was the lead on the investigation into Trump's fraudulent charitable foundation. He was hired by D.A. Alvin Bragg in 2022.
"It’s this conspiracy theory that Jordan is now taking seriously — or at least pretending to take seriously — as evidenced by the Ohioan’s latest outreach to the New York attorney general’s office," Benen continued.
It is the second time that Trump allies have moved to look into an investigation of Trump, with the first effort being Special Counsel John Durham, who spent more than $9 million to look at the FBI's probe into his Russian connections.
"But what’s especially notable about the developments is the degree to which the Republican congressman was effectively bullied into pursuing the conspiracy theory in the first place," explained Benen.
