Jim Jordan Shares Primary Reason Why He Believes Schiff Whistleblower

Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said on Fox News Tuesday that he believes that the whistleblower who has accused Democratic California Sen. Adam Schiff of misconduct is credible.

An FBI memo shows that in 2017 a whistleblower accused Schiff of approving leaks of classified information to target President Donald Trump. That year, Schiff was a member of the House. During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Jordan urged the whistleblower to meet with his staff. Jordan shared the main reason he thinks the whistleblower is credible.

“I hope the whistleblower will come forward and talk to our staff. We’ve dealt with whistleblowers several, you know, dozens over the last several years. I hope they’ll come forward, and we can talk to him,” Jordan said. “But what I do know is whether this guy’s credible or not, it seems to me he is, and the main reason I believe he’s probably credible is this is their pattern. They did it all along.”

Jordan pointed to documents declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, which he said show that intelligence officials altered an assessment for political purposes. Gabbard released declassified files alleging former President Barack Obama and his national security team fabricated and politicized intelligence after President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.

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“They were leaking information to friendly news outlets to further this false narrative that somehow President Trump was working with the Russians and the election was compromised. It’s all baloney. We’ve had countless investigations, the Durham Report, the Mueller Report, all these things that said that was garbage,” Jordan said. “And then, of course, we had the information that Tulsi just released, ODNI Director Gabbard just released three weeks ago, that showed what they were doing, where they changed the intelligence community assessment.”

The Ohio Republican compared the situation to what he called Democrats’ smear campaign against former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. (RELATED: Gregg Jarrett Tells Why ‘Schiff Had To Have Known’ About Alleged Mortgage Fraud)

“One other thing that I do think, well, I was just going to say, one other thing that I think is critically important is, remember what they did to Chairman Nunes. They accused him of doing this when he did it,” Jordan added. “They accused him of the very thing that they did, according to this whistleblower, typical left operation. Always accuse us of what they’re actually doing. All that. Devin was driven by it all along.”

Schiff’s office rejected the claims as false and defamatory, saying they stem from a fired former staffer.

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