Impeachment-hopeful Democrats consider the Trump administration's use of a covert server for a transcript with a foreign leader as evidence of a cover-up, but Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, justifies the move because of President Donald Trump's deep-state leakers.
"You know why they put it in the classified server?" Jordan asked CNN's "The State of the Union" host Jake Tapper.
"Because this administration – there was a study, Jake, right here, done by the senate in 2017, more leaks in the first five months, state security leaks in the first five months of the Trump administration than any other administration. They should be putting everything in there, with folks around you who are leaking information."
Democrats seeking impeachment of Trump have pointed to the whistleblower's complaint about the handling of the call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as potential attempts to cover up pay-for-play by withholding $390 million in military aid in exchange for an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter – potential political rivals of the president.
But the administration was not hiding the call with Zelensky – because they released it, unprecedentedly – it was attempting to keep it from deep-state partisans looking for political dirt on the U.S. president, according to Jordan.
"Who are you going to believe? The guy who had first-hand knowledge, who was on the call, President Zelensky, or the [whistleblower with second-half information]: The guy who didn't have firsthand knowledge and had a motive against the president," Jordan told Tapper in an interview that devolved into a partisan back and forth.
Tapper is a former Democratic campaign press secretary and a notorious media critic of Trump's, while Jordan has been one of staunchest defenders of the president in the House.
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