The quote within the headline is from AP's report.
The inference that a Jim Jordan alliance, to picador Hunter Biden before the DOJ worked him over, as weighing in thinking about him for the job, is a circumfrential inference, where Trump also had a thing over the Bidens and their actions to where he sent Rudy to Ukraine, etc., etc.
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Not just a hat tip to the man, a paycheck. He showed initiative.