The GOP is preparing to hammer agencies reviewing the conduct of former President Trump with a new select subcommittee poised to focus on the “weaponization” of the federal government.
The panel is being drawn up to take aim at ongoing investigations at the Department of Justice and the FBI on Trump, including the taking of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago and the former president’s conduct leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The subcommittee, included under the umbrella of the House Judiciary Committee, is expected to be helmed by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a combative ally of Trump.
Jordan has already sent more than 100 letters to the two agencies ahead of his own expected probes — complaining the FBI has “ridiculed conservative Americans.”
Republicans have weighed a “Church-style” investigation of the FBI since late last year, modeled after a 1970s investigation into civil liberties violations by the intelligence community.
But language in the resolution establishing the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government would give the panel the power to oversee “ongoing criminal investigations.”