Fox Host Tells Jim Jordan People Are ‘Sick’ of Investigations Going Nowhere

Amid Donald Trump’s criminal trial, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and House Judiciary Committee chairman, on Sunday about the hush money case and for conducting “congressional investigations that go nowhere,” adding that people are “sick” of it.

Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case earlier this month. Following an investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, Trump was indicted in March 2023 on charges of falsifying business records relating to hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels alleges that she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which he has denied. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and said the case against him is politically motivated.

During Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News, while speaking with Jordan, Bartiromo discussed Trump’s criminal hush money trial and the Judiciary Committee’s latest report that alleges the Manhattan district attorney’s hush money investigation into Trump is “political prosecution.”

On Thursday, the committee released a 300-page report titled, “An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump.”

Led by Jordan, who has been looking into the Trump investigation since the former president was indicted last year, the report states that Congress “has a specific and manifestly important interest in preventing politically-motivated prosecutions of current and former presidents by elected state and local prosecutors, particularly in jurisdictions—like New York County—where the prosecutor is popularly elected and trial-level judges lack life tenure.”

“At this point, American citizens are asking, ‘What can you do about it?’ With all due respect, people are sick and tired of congressional investigations that go nowhere,” she said, seemingly pointing towards the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

For over a year, House Republicans led by House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, and Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee have been investigating the Biden family, alleging that the president was involved with and benefited from his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings when he was serving under former President Barack Obama as his vice president.

The allegations have been denied by the White House and Hunter Biden’s lawyers, with Democrats criticizing the GOP’s impeachment inquiries for failing to find any meaningful evidence against the president.

“People are sick and tired of letters being written and sent to the people who we know are bad in the first place. They want you to do something about it. You’re an elected official. What can you do to right these wrongs?” Bartiromo asked Jordan on Sunday.

In response, Jordan said he was fighting by passing legislation that would “remedy” the situation citing a proposed measure which would shield presidents from state prosecutions, but added that they are a legislative branch and “can’t put anyone in jail.”

“We’ve passed legislation out of the committee that would help remedy this situation, particularly the one in New York, that the president or vice president can move a case to federal court from when you do these state prosecutors who are going after someone for a political reason,” Jordan said. “So we’re a legislative branch. We can’t put anyone in jail.”

The congressman added: “And I don’t think the Biden administration, their DOJ, is going to go after the people who need to go after. You’re just not going to get that from Merrick Garland…But oh, you can have someone from the Biden Justice Department like Jack Smith go after President Trump. Our job is to get the facts out there and to look at legislation.”

Newsweek has reached out to Jordan’s office via email for comment.

Jordan’s comments come after polls show that fewer Americans say the president was involved in his son’s business dealings. A Harvard CAPS/Harris survey in March found that 56 percent said that Biden “helped and participated in Hunter Biden’s business,” a 3 percent decrease from February’s survey.

The downtick was seen among all voters, with the greatest change being with Republicans. Between the February and March polls, 5 percent of GOP voters switched to the position that Biden did not participate in his son’s business dealings. In the March survey, 23 percent of Republicans agreed with that sentiment, compared with 63 percent of Democrats and 47 percent of independents.