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By Matthew Foldi
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) will subpoena Manhattan’s District Attorney and one of the DA’s lieutenants if the two don’t voluntarily appear before Congress to discuss the criminal convictions against President Donald Trump, Jordan exclusively told the Washington Reporter.
“Everything’s on the table,” he said about the possibility of subpoenaing Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Department of Justice alumnus Matthew Colangelo, who has previously been described by Jordan as “a lead attorney in the political prosecution of President Trump with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg,” if they fail to testify willingly.
The Washington Reporter also spoke with Jordan about the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, the criminal referrals Jordan sent to the Department of Justice for Hunter and James Biden regarding the Biden family’s shady business dealings, Michael Cohen’s lies to Congress, big tech, wrestling, Republicans’ 2025 agenda, and more.
You called for Alvin Bragg and Matthew Colangelo to testify before the select committee. If they don’t show up, would you issue a subpoena?
Matthew Foldi
Editor in Chief of the Washington Reporter
Everything’s on the table, if they’re not going to. We got a notice yesterday and we’re communicating with them. But if they don’t come, we will. If they’re not willing to come voluntarily, we will subpoena them.
Rep. Jim Jordan
House Judiciary Committee Chairman
What’s the latest with the impeachment inquiry?
Matthew Foldi
Editor in Chief of the Washington Reporter
We continue to put together all the facts that we know. I’ve said before, the entire time we’ve done this, I think the case is compelling. But obviously, it’ll be a decision for the full House of Representatives, particularly the Republican conference, on if we in fact move forward with actual articles.
We’re in the middle of battling with the Attorney General on the audio tape of Special Counsel Hur’s interview with Joe Biden and the audio tape with the book writer, the ghost writer, Mark Zwonitzer.
We think that information is important for our investigation, because it’s the best evidence and we think they’ve already waived any privilege when they gave us the transcript. So we’re in the middle of that fight. I’m all for holding the attorney general in contempt if he won’t give us that information.
Rep. Jim Jordan
House Judiciary Committee Chairman
You recently referred Michael Cohen to the Department of Justice for prosecution. Why did you feel like that was a necessary move on your part?
Matthew Foldi
Editor in Chief of the Washington Reporter
Because he gave false information to the committee a few years ago, six different times. The biggest lie that everyone remembers is he said he didn’t want our jobs in the Trump White House in 2017.
That’s just laughable, he wanted to be chief of staff or whatever, but there were other lies that he told during the course of his testimony. We felt it was important that everybody understand that. Because Alvin Bragg knew it already.
Rep. Jim Jordan
House Judiciary Committee Chairman
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By Matthew Foldi
During a Pride Month flag-raising event in New Britain, pro-Hamas protesters singled out Rep. Jahana Hayes (D., Ct.), the Washington Reporter can confirm exclusively.
“Hey Jahana, what do you say?” the tiny crowd shouted into a megaphone. “How much money did AIPAC pay?” The group repeated the antisemitic jingle, along with others commonly heard at jihadist college encampments across the country. After a chorus of “shame,” the small gathering also asked: “How many kids have you killed today?”
By Matthew Foldi
One of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) top lawyers joined the administration just after leaving George Soros’s vast network. An ethics watchdog is now calling him the embodiment of the “revolving door spinning furiously in the Biden administration.”
Travis Annatoyn, the Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Mineral Resources at DOI, joined the Biden administration after a lengthy career working on far-left environmental causes. Annatoyn has had to recuse himself in his current position at the DOI from handling a number of entities, which range from the National Audubon Society to Democracy Forward, a dark money group that repeatedly sued former President Donald Trump’s administration, and which received at least $1 million from John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, which Podesta and George Soros co-founded in 2003.
By Texas State Rep. Janie Lopez
After spending the past three years ignoring our immigration crisis, President Joe Biden came to Brownsville, Texas back in February to once again claim that he could only act to secure the border with the help of Republicans in Congress. Last week, he completely contradicted himself by issuing a proclamation claiming the opposite. Biden’s election year gimmick is too little too late and his failure to halt the surge of illegal border crossings during his tenure is the reason why Republican-led states like Texas have had to take unprecedented action over the past three years. And due to Biden’s inaction, every state in America has become a border state, leaving state Republican leaders as the last line of defense against this humanitarian crisis.
My district is located in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), stretching from Port Mansfield to the north, down into San Pedro and parts of Brownsville, just across the border from theMexican town of Matamoros. Due to our location along the southern border, the RGV is a major corridor for human smuggling, narcotics trafficking, and other illegal activities. What’s happening here has had dangerous implications for Texas and across America.
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Washington Free Beacon:, Pro-Hamas Agitators Surround the White House And Call for Dead Jews, by Meghan Blonder and Jessica Costescu
Town Hall: UN Secretary General Abuses His Authority, by Bonnie Glick
Washington Examiner: Hogan team dings Alsobrooks for ‘platitudes’ on crime after gun control speech, by Ramsey Touchberry
National Review: The Lafayette Square Crimes Highlight a Big Problem for the Democrats, by Charlie Cooke