INTERVIEW | Rep. Jim Banks on Politicization of DOJ: Bidens, Top Dems Play by ‘Different Set of Rules’

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found Nov. 2, six days before the midterm elections, in Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington. The Biden administration didn’t announce the discovery, which was reported first Monday by CBS News.

Biden commented briefly Tuesday, saying he was “surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate what happened.

“It would be funny if it weren’t so serious, right?” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., asks during an interview on “The Daily Signal Podcast,” adding:

What the Biden administration said about Donald Trump and the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, and the classified documents [stored there] that they won’t actually tell us what they really were, and then the same thing happens to Joe Biden, his vice presidential records going to the Biden Center, which, by the way, was funded by over $60 million from the Chinese Communist Party.

On the podcast, Banks adds:

There are two sets of rules in America today: one for anyone named Biden, Obama, or Clinton, and then a different set of rules for the rest of us.

And so, because of that two sets of rules and the lack of impartiality by the Biden administration, their DOJ, that’s what we should be investigating.

Banks also discusses the four-day fight over choosing a speaker of the House, what he hopes Republicans will focus on in the 118th Congress, and whether he will spearhead any investigations.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, January 12th.
0:09.4	I'm Samantha Cheris.
0:11.6	After 15 rounds of voting, we finally have a speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy.
0:17.2	Our guest for today, Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, received a vote in the first
0:21.8	round of voting and joins us to discuss what his reaction was like, to hearing his name,
0:27.6	any investigations he will be spearheading and what he hopes the Republican Party will
0:32.0	focus on, this Congress.
0:33.8	We'll get to my conversation with Congressman Banks right after this.
0:43.0	This is my Call of the Heritage Foundation.
0:44.9	I know how the left and the deep state operate because I've seen it from the inside.
0:49.6	When I was working for the Trump administration, I learned how the left made our lives miserable
0:53.9	and how they continued to think they could play by their own rules.
0:57.0	Well, now we're taking all these tricks and tactics that were deployed against the
1:00.4	Trump administration and turning them against the Biden regime.
1:04.4	Through the work of the Oversight Project, we're exposing left for what they are and embarrassing
1:09.0	some actors responsible.
1:10.9	We're using strategic foyes and fearless litigation to force these bureaucrats to deliver
1:17.4	documents they'd prefer to never see the light of day.
1:21.0	But for our work to be successful, we need patriots like you to stand with us.
1:25.3	You can take action now visit heritage dot org slash oversight to learn more.
1:29.7	There's no time to waste.
1:32.3	Joining the podcast today is representative Jim Banks of Indiana's third congressional
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