EXCLUSIVE — Jim_Jordan ripped the “double standard” in how the Justice Department is handling investigations tied to Hunter Biden and also dinged the DOJ’s credibility as it nears a historic indictment of former President Donald Trump.
on bringing charges, but Garland has the power to reject such a move.
“We want that memorandum. We’ll see if we get it,” Jordan said. “When you're getting ready to indict a former president who is leading in every single poll in the 2024 race, that's totally unprecedented territory. So we think it makes sense to let the American people know exactly what the perimeters of the investigation are.”the Lois Lerner IRS scandal
Lerner, director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations unit, led an IRS effort targeting Tea Party groups and similar conservative nonprofit organizations. Smith’s push for DOJ officials to contact Lerner and the IRS in order to get the DOJ involved seemed to be the impetus behind the IRS sending the FBI reams of nonprofit tax records.
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