Republican Representative Matt Gaetz threatened to put special prosecutor Jack Smith on the receiving in the case against President Donald Trump.
Gaetz lashed out after Trump was indicted for the second time, calling for removing the funding that supports Smith.
On Thursday, Trump was charged with conspiracy in his efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election.
“House Republicans should immediately demand that Jack Smith present himself for a transcribed interview with the Judiciary Committee in the next 15 days,” Matt Gaetz said in a Newsmax interview he posted to YouTube.
“If he does not do that, we should send a subpoena. If he ignores the subpoena, we should hold him in criminal contempt of the Congress so that he is the first prosecutor in American history to prosecute a case while himself under criminal contempt,” Gaetz said.
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Gaetz also said he is willing to take on Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“If Merrick Garland doesn’t enforce that contempt, then we ought to impeach Merrick Garland,” he said.
“To showcase how political and indeed dirty this has all become, we can utilize congressional immunities to immunize President Trump, he said.
Gaetz cited sections of that that “gives any committee or subcommittee of the Congress the power to subpoena a witness, bring them in and partially immunize them.”
The Republican said it’s necessary to “stand up for Congress’s equities when it comes to election interference [and] when it comes to misuse of the DOJ.”
“This is all an effort to try to distract us from the very real crimes committed by Hunter and Joe Biden,” Gaetz said.
“It’s not a coincidence that Joe Biden is going to the beach now, but it is especially not a coincidence that, on the heels of their former business partner, Devon Archer, saying that Joe Biden was functionally the closer — the guy that gave the credibility to the Biden brand so they could engage in their international influence peddling — this indictment reads like a torturing of First Amendment-protected activity,” he said.
Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she would invoke the Holman rule to stop Smith.
The rule allows lawmakers to zero in on a particular line item, such as a person’s salary, and reduce it.
READ: Trump Attorney Addresses Indictment in Courthouse: “Election Interference at Its Finest”
