WATCH: Gaetz compares ‘ludicrous’ FBI use of lobbyists to Biden teaching cognition class
Heather Hamilton
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) blasted the alleged “weaponization” of the FBI and its use of lobbyists for political peddling, saying it was as “ludicrous” as asking “Joe Biden to teach your comprehension and cognition class.”
Gaetz and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday that investigations suggest the Justice Department has attempted to “shape political thought for the people in this country.”
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“If we decentralize the power outside of Washington, D.C., we can vindicate the true and honorable and just purpose of the FBI without falling victim to political capture,” Gaetz said, suggesting examples of the FBI’s influence in recent elections.
“When we let the Democrats bring any human being on the planet Earth in to say that maybe the government isn’t weaponized against our people, maybe Jim Jordan and I are wrong, they brought in a lobbyist, but not just any lobbyist, a lobbyist that was an Obama-era DOJ political appointee who now represents Google and Pfizer and George Soros as a paid influence peddler,” Gaetz continued. “Bringing in a lobbyist to try to dissuade us from our path to expose the weaponization of this government would be like bringing in Joe Biden to teach your comprehension and cognition class or maybe Chris Christie to do your weight-loss planning with you. It was ludicrous, and we can do better.”
Jordan, who is now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, praised whistleblowers who have come forward, including ex-FBI agents Thomas J. Baker and Nicole Parker, and said he looked forward to additional testimony.
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The House Judiciary Committee held its first subcommittee hearing on the alleged “weaponization” of federal agencies, particularly the DOJ, on Thursday. It featured testimony from Baker and Parker, in addition to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.