Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida wants to put special prosecutor Jack Smith on the receiving end of a few pointed questions.

Gaetz, who has called for removing the funding that supports Smith, lashed out as former President Donald Trump was indicted by Smith for the second time.

Trump, who was earlier charged with mishandling classified documents in an investigation led by Smith, was charged Thursday 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.,” 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.

Gaetz then 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.

Another sham indictment from Biden’s Department of Injustice! This is a blatant attempt by the Left to tamper with our elections.

I urge my House and Senate colleagues to immediately support @RepMattGaetz’s bill, as I have, to defund this witch hunt.

— Matt Rosendale (@RepRosendale) August 1, 2023

“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.”

DEFUND JACK SMITH’S WITCH HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP!https://t.co/TzWJJPbP5a https://t.co/1UzAd8wTnC

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) August 1, 2023

Gaetz said it is 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.

I STAND WITH TRUMP!!!

The politicized and weaponized DOJ is now committing election interference with this outrageous conspiracy theory set in motion to persecute President Trump and many innocent people.

Democrats can’t win on their failed America Last policies so they’ve… pic.twitter.com/TFNBtzfUCp

— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) August 1, 2023

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she would invoke the Holman rule, if necessary, to stop Smith, according to The Hill.

The rule allows federal lawmakers to zero in on a particular line item, such as one person’s salary, and reduce it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Homelessness and crime in Portland are costing the state of Oregon serious money.

According to recent analysis, the county of Multnomah, where Portland is located, has lost over a billion dollars as residents have fled the area.

This is not surprising to anyone who has been paying attention. Portland has allowed far left radicals like Antifa to run wild with no consequences for years now.

FOX News reports:

Oregon county lost $1 billion in 2020 as residents fled crime, homelessness: ‘It’s like Portland died’

Multnomah County, where Portland, Oregon, is located, reportedly lost more than $1 billion in income between 2020 and 2021 as a result of residents fleeing the state amid surging crime, homelessness and safety concerns.

Data analysis conducted by Oregon Live showed that 14,257 tax filers and their dependents left Multnomah County during the first year of the pandemic in 2020 and took a record $1 billion of income with them.

The data showed that higher earners were more likely to leave since their jobs could be done remotely during coronavirus shutdowns, and the average income of people leaving was 14% higher than people who left the year before.

FOX 12 in Oregon has more:

Portland is one of the fastest-shrinking US cities

Census data shows Portland lost the sixth-most people in the U.S. in the last year.

After 15 straight years of growth, Portland’s population began declining in 2020.

Amanda Ghest has lived in Portland for about 15 years. She says she enjoys it and is troubled to hear many are packing up and leaving.

“I know it’s been really tough for a lot of people through the pandemic,” Ghest said. “It’s been hard to see Portland at the forefront of some of those tensions.”

The data shows Portland lost 8,308 people from July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2022…

The Portland Business Alliance said these trends are concerning in its 2023 State of the Economy report. It says there are high and rising vacancy rates in downtown offices and increased crime. Addressing the city’s population it says, “People and businesses vote with their feet, and they are not voting for Portland, the city or the region, in the way they have in the recent past.”

How much worse will things have to get before the people who live there demand real changes?

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