'What you’re saying just doesn’t make sense': CNN’s Bash cuts off Jim Jordan rant about Trump indictment
11 June 2023
During an extensive interview most notable for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) refusing to stop talking and allowing host Dana Bash to fact-check him, the CNN host was finally forced to cut off the conservative lawmaker and point out he was rambling instead of answering her questions.
Asked on to discuss the 37-count federal indictment that former president Donald Trump is facing, Jordan ranted about the politicization of the Department of Justice -- a central theme of hearings in the House Judiciary Committee he heads -- and then launched into diatribes about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Pressed about a Trump admission on a recently revealed tape that he possessed sensitive documents that he had not declassified -- a central part of the DOJ's case -- Jordan stated, "Not if he declassified it when he was President of the United States, for goodness' sake."
"He is saying point blank in this audio tape he did not declassify it," Bash interjected. "What you're saying just doesn't make sense on its face."
"Dana, what this truly is, Dana, is an affront to the rule of law," Jordan attempted.
"It is an affront to the consistent application of the law," he continued. "You have Secretary Clinton who had classified material on a server. She was not President of the United States. She was Secretary Clinton. You have that happen and nothing happens to her."
"The only one indicted is the one who was president and did it the right way," he later insisted. "Oh, my goodness. That is what the American people see."
Watch a portion of the interview below or at this link: