- Trump reacted to a report claiming the Clinton campaign hired a tech firm to access Trump Tower servers.
- The former president said the allegations were crimes that "would have been punishable by death."
- Jim Jordan echoed Trump's talking points, saying his statement was "right on target."
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said former President Donald Trump was "right on target" when he suggested executing Hillary Clinton aides.
Jordan, a staunch Trump ally, was reacting to the 45th president's Saturday statement on a new court filing by Special Counsel John Durham, reported by Fox News.
The filing claimed that former aides to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign paid a tech company to access servers belonging to Trump Tower and afterwards the Trump White House in an effort to find links to Russia.
In his Saturday statement, Trump said the filing "provides indisputable evidence" that the Clinton team spied on his campaign and presidency to "in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia."
Trump and his allies have long claimed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into his campaign's links to Russia was a "witch hunt."
"This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be criminal prosecution," Trump said.
"In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death."
Jordan echoed Trump's talking points, telling Fox News on Sunday: "That is what is so frightening here. You had the government working with the Clinton campaign to go after the Republican Party's nominee for president to spy on that campaign."
Jordan didn't provide any proof of his assertion that the US government was in any way involved.
"We've never seen anything like this in history. So President Trump's statement yesterday I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened in the history of our great country."
Durham was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr in October 2020 to investigate the US government investigation of the Trump 2016 campaign's connections with Russia.
The Durham probe has since become a popular talking point among conservatives.
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