‘Jim Jordan is an Absolute Hypocrite’: Adam Kinzinger Rips Former Colleague’s Inconsistency On Enforcing Subpoenas

Ex-GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tore into his former colleague Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday after Jordan vowed to pursue contempt of Congress charges against Hunter Biden for defying a Congressional subpoena – something Jordan himself once did.

CNN anchor Kate Bolduan recapped the morning’s events, which included Hunter Biden skipping a closed-door deposition and making a defiant statement on the steps of Capitol Hill.

“We’ve heard Republicans speak out after Hunter Biden made his comments. They’re not happy. They’re not going to stop their investigation, as we know. One thing we heard from Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is this. He said, when Congress asks you to come testify, you are supposed to come testifying. As someone who served on the committee who issued a subpoena to Jim Jordan, which he defied, what are people supposed to take from this?” Bolduan asked.

“Well, they’re supposed to take that Jim Jordan is an absolute hypocrite,” Kinzinger shot back, adding:

Jim Jordan in front of the Rules Committee when we were talking about holding Steve Bannon or somebody in contempt. He said in front of the Rules Committee that the Department of Justice and the FBI should be the ones investigating Donald Trump. And that would be their role. Now, of course, he’s against the Department of Justice and the FBI investigating Donald Trump. He’s for the sanctity of the subpoena by the US Congress until he’s the one that gets subpoenaed by the US Congress.

And he also voted against enforcing subpoenas against people like Steve Bannon and against people like Mark Meadows. I mean, this is — the hypocrisy is mind numbing. I am less concerned with what people’s view is on positions and what their idea is on policy, as much as I am with there is just open and blatant and unashamed hypocrisy where it’s all about winning. It’s all about power and truth, and justice really has no role in what they’re doing. If you have evidence that Joe Biden, not Hunter Biden, but that Joe Biden broke the law, bring it forward. And if it’s impeachable, impeach him. But you don’t have that evidence. So you go on a fishing expedition and all of a sudden you raise the flame of justice in Congress like you’re so concerned with the congressional subpoena when you were the one that ignored it the whole time.

Bolduan then asked if Kinzinger believed the current House impeachment inquiry will result in a vote to try and impeach President Joe Biden. “Look, if I was in Vegas betting, I would put all of my money on no matter what this ends in impeachment. And I said this at the beginning of the year. Keep in mind, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s now the de facto head of the GOP,” he replied.

Watch the full clip above via CNN.