Jim Jordan Confronted With Trump Campaign's Link to Russian Oligarch
Representative
Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, was confronted on Sunday about former President
Donald Trump's campaign chairman
Paul Manafort's link to a Russian oligarch.
Special counsel
Robert Mueller's 448-page report released in 2019 revealed the findings of the two-year investigation that looked into whether members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. The probe also focused on Manafort's work for Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs while he was Trump's campaign chairman.
The report also found that Manafort told Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with suspected connections to Russian intelligence services, about important battleground states in the 2016 race, including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Michigan.
Manafort expected Kilimnik to share information about the Trump campaign with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire and industrialist who has close links to Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
On
NBC News'
Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Jordan whether or not he will look into the role Manafort played with Deripaska.
Earlier this month,
Jordan urged Democrats to join Republicans in the newly formed subcommittee that aims to investigate the "weaponization" of the federal government. The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
will be chaired by the Ohio congressman, and is expected to consist of 13
Republicans and five
Democrats.
Jordan, a staunch Trump supporter, also spoke on Sunday about the "weaponization" of federal agencies, and criticized the
FBI as he mentioned Charles McGonigal, the special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York from 2016 to 2018.