Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said that Donald Trump was 'right on target' to suggest Hillary Clinton's operatives should be executed after the former president accused her campaign of treason.
Trump unleashed a furious broadside on Clinton on Saturday after special counsel John Durham claimed that her team had tried to spy on his White House servers in a bid to find ties to Russia to smear him with.
The one-term president claimed Durham's report was bigger than Watergate and said everyone involved should be prosecuted and preferably, executed.
'In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death,' he said.
On Sunday, Jordan appeared on Fox & Friends where said backed Trump's statement.
'We've never seen anything like this in history,' Jordan said. 'So President Trump's statement yesterday, I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened in the history of our great country.'
Jordan added that the 'spying' was 'worse than [we] thought.'
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said that Donald Trump was 'right on target' to suggest executions for Hillary Clinton's operatives during Fox & Friends' Sunday morning segment
Last week, CNN revealed that the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack had obtained call records that indicated Trump spoke with Jordan that day. Above, Trump (right) shakes hands with Rep Jordan (left) during a rally in 2018
Last week, CNN revealed that the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack had obtained call records that indicated Trump spoke with Jordan for at least 10 minutes on the morning of the insurrection.
The committee is now debating on whether to subpoena Jordan after he refused to be interviewed. Gaming
'I talked to the President a number of times that day, but I don't remember the times,' Jordan told CNN.
The call logs are among other official documents turned over to the House committee after the Supreme Court ruled against Trump's appeal to keep them confidential.
'President Trump was right. Remember in 2017, when President Trump said they [Democrats] were spying on me and all the press and all the Democrats said no, they weren't and then in 2019, then-Attorney-General Bill Barr said spying took place...' Jordan told Fox & Friends hosts on Sunday.
'Well, now we know for sure...Yes, there was spying going on, and it was worse than we thought because they were spying on the sitting President of the United States.'
'We do know this, John Durham is going right back to the start...It is all about the lies that started in 2016, when they started all this concerted effort to go after a Presidential campaign. That's what's so frightening here,' Jordan added.
On Saturday, Trump ranted that Team Clinton's behavior would once have merited execution.
They spoke after Durham's filings revealed how Hillary Clinton's election campaign paid money to a tech firm to 'mine data' from servers that were at Trump Tower, and later the White House.
Hillary Clinton's election campaign paid money to a tech firm to 'infiltrate' servers that were at Trump Tower, and later the White House, according to a filing from Special Counsel John Durham
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