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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said on Tuesday that he doesn’t believe Donald Trump will pursue any investigation into or charges against President Joe Biden if he wins back the White House in November.
“I don’t think that’s the plan,” Jordan said when asked during an Axios House event if he expected Trump’s Department of Justice to investigate Biden and his family. “I think President Trump’s going to be focused on securing the border, making sure the tax cuts stay in place, and putting back in place common-sense energy policy,” he added.
Jordan also responded when asked if he believes the president and his family have committed crimes for which they have yet to be charged.
“I don’t know that. I’ve said all along — I was never for moving forward on impeachment. What I’ve said is I think the case is compelling,” he said.
The outlet noted further:
Trump on Monday suggested that Biden may persuade the DOJ to end two legal cases against him in a sign of trying to unify the country following the assassination attempt on the former president in Pennsylvania.
Trump was shot in the ear, one spectator was killed, and two others injured after a 20-year-old gunman opened fire Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Secret Service shot and killed the suspect.
Trump on Sunday indicated during an interview with the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin that the campaign between the two presidential candidates could be more civil.
He also said that he and Biden spoke Saturday evening after the unsuccessful assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, which Trump said was “fine,” describing Biden as “very nice.”
“He [Trump] also said that ‘we hear’ that Biden will order the Department of Justice to drop its two prosecutions of Trump,” Goodwin wrote in his column in the Post. “So far, there’s no public sign of that.”
Nikki Haley, a former Republican presidential candidate who sparred with Donald Trump during the primary season, spoke at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday and firmly backed the 2024 GOP nominee.
“My fellow Republicans,” Haley began to a loud roar. “President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity. It was a gracious invitation, and I was happy to accept. I’ll start by making one thing perfectly clear. Donald Trump has my strong endorsement. Period.”
“Our country is at a critical moment. We have a choice to make. For more than a year, I said, a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for President Kamala Harris. After seeing the debate, everyone knows it’s true,” Haley continued.
“If we have four more years of Biden or a single day of Harris, our country will be badly worse off. For the sake of our nation. We have to go with Donald Trump. But there’s more to it than that. We should acknowledge that there are some Americans who don’t agree with Donald Trump 100% of the time. I happen to know some of them. And I want to speak to them tonight. My message to them is simple. You don’t have to agree with Trump 100% of the time to vote for him. Take it from me. I haven’t always agreed with President Trump, but we agree more often than we disagree,” Haley added.
Haley declared: “We agree on keeping America strong. We agree on keeping America safe. And we agree that Democrats have moved so far to the left that they’re putting our freedoms in danger. I’m here tonight because we have a country to save, and a unified Republican Party is essential for saving her. For those who have some doubts about President Trump. I want to tell you a few things about the commander in chief I know and worked with as ambassador to the United Nations. I had a front row seat to his national security policies. We sure could use those again.”
“Think about it, when Barack Obama was president, Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea. With Joe Biden as president, Putin invaded all of Ukraine. But when Donald Trump was president, Putin did nothing. No invasion. No invasions. No wars. That was no accident. Putin didn’t attack Ukraine because he knew Donald Trump was tough. A strong and strong president doesn’t start wars. A strong president prevents wars,” she said.
