Chairman Jim Jordan (OH-4th) has once again ‘weaponized’ the power and purse of his House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government by interfering and trying to obstruct yet another state prosecutor, Georgia DA Fani Willis, on behalf of his mentor and savior, Donald J. Trump.
Another classic example of the ability of Trump to ‘weaponize the federal government’ on his behalf by using straw men of lesser mind and morals to obstruct those sworn to uphold our laws – and prosecute him for his many crimes.
Jim Jordan v Alvin Bragg, Mar-May 2023
You may remember that Jordan’s first attempt at intimidation and obstruction of a Trump criminal prosecution was against Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney, who indicted Trump on April 4, 2023, for 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, in violation of New York Penal Law 175.10. This was from the famous porn star payoff by Trump to keep her mouth shut prior to the 2016 election.
On March 20, 2023, Jordan sent a letter to Bragg accusing him of politically motivated abuse of prosecutorial authority against Trump and demanded case documents and testimony. Bragg fired back and sued Jordan in federal court for interfering with a state prosecution. (see Bragg v. Jordan, SDNY 1:23-cv-03032.)
Attorney Mark Pomeranz
Eventually, only a former prosecutor, Mark Pomeranz, was made available to testify after subpoena on May 12, 2023. But, after a scathing introductory statement about this ‘show deposition’, he plead the fifth amendment for most of his testimony. Thus, Jordan was stymied and laughed at. This was the end of Jordan’s attempt to obstruct the porn-star payoff case, which remains on the New York City Criminal docket pending trial.
Federal Obstruction Statute
The Omnibus Clause of 18 U.S.C. §1503, or Omnibus Provision, provides that anyone who corruptly… obstructs or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct or impede, the due administration of justice”, is guilty of the crime of obstruction of justice.
However, this is not a ‘federal’ case. At least not yet. So, we will bypass federal law for Georgia state law.
Jim Jordan v Fani Willis, Fulton County, GA, District Attorney
Donald Trump received his FOURTH criminal Indictment on August 14, 2023, from a Fulton County, Georgia, Grand Jury after an almost year long investigation by the county attorney, Fani Willis. This time, he has been charged with 13 felony counts for attempting a RICO fraudulent electoral vote conspiracy, along with 18 other defendants.
Since the 118th Congress is still in session, Jim Jordan remains chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee using his ‘weaponization powers’ conspicuously to continue his straw man attacks for Trump’s agenda. The Trump agenda being to stay out of prison by intimidating or destroying the prosecutorial and judicial offices that have indicted him.
Stochastic rhetoric (indirect demand for violence), intimidation, delay, threats, counter-attacks, gaslighting, projection, misdirection, recusal and his many propaganda ‘news’ sources, produce a non-stop tsunami of daily Trump bullshit. This behavior is the result of a lifetime of unbelievable wealth and privilege by a 77 year-old who demonstrates elements of narcissistic and sociopathic disorders.
Goose-stepping to his orders from Trump, Jordan is again trying to obstruct a Trump prosecution – this time the one managed by Attorney Fani Willis in Atlanta, Georgia. On August 24, 2023, Chairman Jordan sent a letter of intimidation and obstruction to Attorney Willis.
On September 7, 2023, Attorney Willis replied with a scathing letter back to Jordan. Of course, it presents similar well founded, legal arguments like the Bragg letter back to Jordan in April, 2023.
As predicted, with Trump breathing down his neck Chairman Jordan would not take ‘no’ for an answer from Attorney Willis. A second letter suitably ‘weaponized’ with intimidation and obstruction propaganda was forwarded to Attorney Willis on September 27, 2023.
The Subcommittee on Weaponization issued the following ‘weaponized’ Press Release:
Then the office followed up with this letter to Attorney Willis:
Jim Jordan should be Indicted in Georgia for Obstruction of Justice
The acts of intimidation and obstruction have occurred by Jordan’s attempts to interfere with an ongoing state criminal prosecution. Jordan already tried the same tactic against Alvin Bragg but got away with it since a former Manhattan prosecutor was available for ‘show’ testimony. But Bragg never produced any of the documentation demanded nor did anyone actively working on the Trump case in his office testify for Jordan. Why? Because Jordan wisely dropped the matter after being embarrassed by Attorney Pomeranz.
Bring Down the Hammer
OFFICIAL CODE OF GEORGIA ANNOTATED
TITLE 16-Crimes and Offenses
CHAPTER 10-Offenses Against Public Administration
Article 5-Offenses Related to Judicial and Other Proceedings
Georgia Statute §16-10-4. Tampering with Evidence
- A person commits the offense of tampering with evidence when, with the intent to prevent the apprehension or cause the wrongful apprehension of any person or to obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he knowingly destroys, alters, conceals, or disguises physical evidence or makes, devises, prepares, or plants false evidence.
- Nothing in this Code section shall be deemed to abrogate or alter any privilege which any person is entitled to claim under existing laws.
- Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section involving the prosecution or defense of a felony and involving another person shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years; provided, however, that any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section involving the prosecution or defense of a serious violent felony as defined in subsection (a) of Code Section 17-10-6.1 and involving another person shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section involving the prosecution or defense of a misdemeanor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
