Jim Jordan wants answers —but will he get them?
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has fired off a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding to see the FBI’s documentation of their raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence; the DOJ has so far failed to produce the requested documents.
Testimony from former senior FBI official Steven D’Antuono suggests that there were “several unusual features in the Department’s handling of the case.”
Jordan, and supporters of the former President and 2024 frontrunner, would like to know exactly what “unusual features” means.
“During his testimony, Mr. D’Antuono expressed strong concerns with the [Justice] Department’s pursuit of the raid and noted several unusual features in the Department’s handling of the case. Mr. D’Antuono, who had over two decades of FBI experience, noted his frustration that the FBI was going to be ‘left holding the bag again’ with respect to the search of President Trump’s residence,” Jordan’s letter reads.
From The Daily Caller:
The FBI allegedly assigned the execution of the search warrant to the Washington Field Office instead of the Miami Field Office, despite the search taking place in the Miami office’s territory. D’Antuono testified that the FBI did not seek consent to search the premises prior to seeking a search warrant and refused to wait for Trump’s attorney before executing the search.
Additionally, the Justice Department did not assign a U.S. Attorney to oversee the investigative matter, and decided to put the national security division on the case, per the letter. Jay Bratt, the chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the national security division, was made “the lead prosecutor on the case,” D’Antuono testified. Bratt was reportedly accused of prosecutorial misconduct by a lawyer representing Trump official Walt Nauta, who was indicted by the Justice Department on Thursday night.
“The Committee previously requested information and documents related to the FBI’s raid of President Trump’s home, which the Department has refused to provide. In light of this testimony and the Department’s failure to respond to our previous oversight requests, we write to renew and supplement our request for documents necessary for our oversight,” Jordan says.
Jordan has given the DOJ until 5:00 PM on June 16th to deliver the requested documentation. Will Jordan be as successful as James Comer’s Oversight Committee in getting what they want from an increasingly politicized and weaponized DOJ?
Stay tuned.
