Jim Jordan on Hunter Biden laptop story: We will uncover the FBI’s full involvement

Congressman Jim Jordan claims that government officials had at least an ‘indirect’ role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story – as he vowed to get to the bottom of the FBI’s involvement in covering up the story.

In the new Congress, Jordan will serve as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a role he said he will use to open up a slew of probes, including into President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

As part of a supplemental installment of the Twitter Files released on Tuesday, author Matt Taibbi revealed that Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker, who formerly worked as FBI General Counsel, was ‘vetting’ files without the knowledge of Twitter’s new leadership.

Taibbi detailed that he and fellow Twitter Files author Bari Weiss were running into ‘obstacles’ for new searches, which they soon found out was because Baker was ‘the person in charge of releasing the files.’

Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk fired Baker on Tuesday.

‘Even last weekend, I guess, he is still looking at the emails that are going to Taibbi and that are going out to the public,’ Rep. Jordan told Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning. ‘So talk about the fox watching the hen house here. I mean, come on.’

Baker was at the center of the FBI scandal in 2016 and 2017, when he was serving as the bureau’s General Counsel at a time Republicans accused the law enforcement arm of spying on Donald Trump’s campaign.

In June 2020, Baker was brought on as Twitter, Inc.’s Deputy General Counsel until he was fired this week.

The Twitter Files reveal internal communications at the social media company revealing the extent to which employees sought to suppress the story about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop harddrive.

Musk, upon Baker’s firing, expressed concerns about his possible role in the Hunter Biden laptop story suppression and alleged interference in the publication of Twitter Files.

Jordan accused: ‘Jim Baker is all over everything.’

‘This just shows big tech, big media, big government are working together to keep information from us, the people. That’s the problem,’ he said in his Fox News interview on Wednesday morning.

‘And what I’m committed to doing, what the Republican members on the Judiciary Committee are committed to do, is getting into the FBI’s role in all of this,’ the Ohio Republican continued.

‘Those weekly briefings they were doing with big tech on the heels of that letter from 51 former intel officials who said it was a ‘Russian disinformation operation.’ Bologna, they knew it was Bologna, yet they were doing these briefings, that’s the big problem.’

Twitter immediately marked a New York Post exposé with the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop as ‘unsafe’, justifying the suppression of the story because they claimed without proof that it contained material hacked by foreign agents.

Democrats quickly jumped on this rhetoric and have repeatedly labeled the laptop story as Russian disinformation or a Republican effort to discredit Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

The Twitter Files reveal that Twitter went so far to suppress the story that they even blocked the transmission of the story’s URL through direct messages, which is a tool usually reserved for extreme cases like stopping the distribution of child pornography.

Twitter officials were also in contact with at least one Democratic lawmaker about the suppression of the story, according to the Twitter Files.