The fallout from the FBI raid of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence shows no sign of abating, with some calling to "defund" or abolish the Bureau altogether.
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Coverage on right-leaning media has, on occasion, amplified the furore, including unevidenced claims that the Bureau "planted evidence" at Trump's home. However, one interview with Congressman Jim Jordan appears to have been misconstrued among the Mar-a-Lago outrage.
Multiple tweets, published in August 2022, claimed that Ohio Representative Jim Jordan had received 14 whistleblower complaints from FBI agents since the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Jim Jordan is a staunch Trump ally, claiming that authorities have been "out to get [Trump] after he left the White House." Jordan has previously suggested that Republicans could impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland, if the GOP gains a majority in Congress; Garland confirmed earlier this month that he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.
However, the clip of Jordan shared on social media misleadingly implies that he was speaking about communications received from FBI whistleblowers after the Mar-a-Lago raid.
The clip was taken from a broadcast of Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, from August 14, 2022, with the title card "GOP SLAMS POLITICIZATION OF THE DOJ, FBI".
During the show Jordan voiced his incredulity about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago ("I cannot believe this kind of stuff is going on in the greatest country ever"), but it wasn't the subject of his comments that were shared on Twitter.