Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan torched CNN\u2019s Dana Bash during a tense segment on whether President-elect Donald Trump would enact retribution on his opponents.<\/p>\n
During an interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Jordan got into a heated exchange with Bash over Trump\u2019s campaign rhetoric promising to be his supporters\u2019 \u201cretribution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople talk about retribution; the retribution has been from the other side,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to stop retribution for the last\u2026 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bash started to interject, stating that she would address it but that she was referring to Trump\u2019s promises to implement \u201cretribution.\u201d She questioned whether he would be in favor of Trump prosecuting alleged opponents through the Justice Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t do it in his first term,\u201d Jordan responded, after which he was interrupted and pressed as to whether he would support retribution in Trump\u2019s second term. Jordan countered by presenting alleged examples of the targeting of political opposition by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think any of that\u2019s going to happen, because we\u2019re the party who\u2019s against political prosecution,\u201d he said when pressed as to whether Trump\u2019s \u201cretribution\u201d would happen. \u201cWe\u2019re the party who\u2019s against going after your opponents using lawfare.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan and Bash then disagreed on whether Trump\u2019s staff was in favor of free speech. When Bash asked Jordan which illegal immigrants would be deported, an equally heated discussion on immigration occurred.<\/p>\n
President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, former Representative Liz Cheney, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA), Vice President Kamala Harris, and others were all accused of being the targets of Trump\u2019s \u201cretribution,\u201d which he made several times during his campaign.<\/p>\n
Much of this, according to Trump and his allies, is payback for his prosecution, which they claim was motivated by politics.<\/p>\n
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