Ex-CIA director calls Jim Jordan a Trump 'supplicant' in response to criminal referral

Former CIA Director John Brennan had a pithy response to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in response to him recommending to the Department of Justice (DOJ) that Brennan be prosecuted.

Earlier this week, Jordan called on the DOJ to indict Brennan for allegedly lying to Congress. Jordan told Attorney General Pam Bondi that Brennan "knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview" in May of 2023 with the House panel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Jordan specifically accused Brennan of lying about the CIA not being involved in the compiling of the "Steele dossier," which is a series of memos written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele about President Donald Trump's alleged dealings with Russia.

In a Wednesday segment with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Brennan likened Jordan's criminal referral to the Ohio Republican simply wanting to "get into the action of Trump's revenge tour," and called the accusation of lying to Congress "fallacious."

"I have cooperated with all of these inquiries and investigations of the government. I have explained exactly what transpired during the Russian interference in 2016 election," Brennan said. "And Jim Jordan now, I think is trying to twist my words and misrepresent and mischaracterize the facts as a way to play to and be a supplicant to Donald Trump, which is why he's making this referral now to the Department of Justice."

"This ground has been retread and plowed numerous times, and I even wrote about it in my memoir exactly what happened there," he continued. "Why, oh, why would I have any motivation to not tell the truth to Congress about this? Because it's already a matter of public record."

Wallace reminded viewers that Brennan had already been "investigated by some of the closest allies to to Donald Trump," including Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, when he represented Florida in the U.S. Senate. Brennan added that he also sat down for multiple hours of interviews with former DOJ special counsel John Durham, who former Attorney General William Barr appointed to head an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

"Again, going through all of this, trying to make sure that they understood clearly," Brennan said. "But clearly, Jim Jordan wants to be able to satisfy Donald Trump in terms of going after Donald Trump's critics, which I am one of. And I have been outspoken when I see that Donald Trump is doing things wrong. So again, it's it's as unsurprising as it is ludicrous in terms of this referral that he's made to the Department of Justice."

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