A lot of interesting coincidences also popped up with Jim Jordan in 2018. The first off is that one of his former aides, Wesley Goodman, was an Ohio state legislator up until the time he was caught having sex with another man in his office, and then dozens of individuals came forward, some underage, to report being sexually harassed by Goodman. And then a report came out that Goodman had sexually assaulted an underage boy while working for Jordan in Washington at a Family Research Council retreat, and the whole thing got hushed up.
But what’s that you say? That’s just a former staffer of Jim Jordan’s. It’s not like that he would ever be caught up in such a scandal and cover up a sexual assault. To that, we say… OH RLY?
Over the summer of 2018, reports surfaced that while Jim Jordan was working as an assistant coach in the wrestling program at Ohio State University, a team physician, Richard Strauss, was sexually assaulting dozens of students over several years. And when asked about it, Jordan denied having any knowledge of any such sexual abuse taking place. You’ll never guess what happened next… multiple wrestlers came forward who said that they were aware of the abuse, brought it to the attention of Jim Jordan, and he just laughed it off as normal everyday locker room shenanigans.Further, as more wrestlers came forward, some reported being contacted by former Ohio State coaches on behalf of Jim Jordan asking them to make public statements to defend him from the controversy. And of course being involved in a coverup of sexual assault means that Jim Jordan received special attention and praise from Donald Trump. Because of course.
Now, in some eras of American history, a scandal like the one Jim Jordan is involved in one be enough to force his resignation, and the president wouldn’t be coming to talk about how great he is. However, we’re in the darkest timeline, and thus a man suspected of being involved in not one, but TWO DIFFERENT coverups of sexual assault could be re-elected. And so it is that Jim Jordan has become one of the most predominant gas-lighters in the modern Republican Party, turning every minute of the time he gets to speak in House Oversight Committee hearings into a farce, and when that’s not enough, to run onto cable news to further the misinformation being spread on behalf of Donald Trump. Here are but some of his worst moments in the past few years:
- March 4th, 2019: Rep. Jordan makes an arguably anti-Semitic Twitter post where he attacks Tom Steyer (who has Jewish heritage) by replacing the S in his name with a “$”, to complain about him donating money to Democrats.
- March 27th, 2019: Jim Jordan sends a letter to Donald Trump’s accountants, Mazars, and instructs them to ignore any subpoenas they might receive, including Congressional subpoenas.
- June 11th, 2019: Jim Jordan harasses former White House Counsel John Dean during his testimony about how impeachment should be handled, and for whatever reason, tries to insinuate that Dean is attacking Donald Trump because of how he has handled foreign policy with Israel (???).
- September 29th, 2019: Jordan goes on CNN to try and confuse the public regarding the Whistleblower Scandal, and Jake Tapper humiliates him, catching hihttps://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-jak...ics-its-facts/m in several lies and contradictions, and refusing to allow Jordan to try and deflect by spreading conspiracy theories about Joe Biden.
- October 14th, 2019: After 10 hours of damning testimony from State Department employee Dr. Fiona Hill during the impeachment inquiry, Rep. Jordan makes the ludicrous claim to the press that impeachment testimony doesn’t count unless it’s presented in front of all 435 members of Congress, and not just a committee. He also tried claiming that Congressman Matt Gaetz was unfairly kicked out of the meeting, but Gaetz wasn’t on any relevant committee to the discussion. (Jordan is, as per usual, full of s***.)
- October 23rd, 2019: Jordan is one of 41 Republicans who, while staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached, stage a ridiculous publicity stunt in response by crashing a classified impeachment inquiry hearing for a “protest”
- November 14th, 2019: Jim Jordan, in the midst of the Trump impeachment hearings, tries to spin that Trump is somehow the hero of the story, and that he was actually holding up aid to Ukraine and trying to solicit an illegal investigation as a “test”, to see if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was corrupt or not.
- December 3rd, 2019: Rep. Jordan votes against a resolution to disallow Russia from re-entering the G7 and makes it the G8 until it leaves Ukraine.
- December 18th, 2019: Jordan ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- February 13th, 2020: Rep. Jordan is mentioned in a court hearing back in Columbus, Ohio, where a witness recalls Jim Jordan, then an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University, pressuring a wrestler to dispute his own brother’s reports of sexual abuse by a team trainer. This is yet another mention of Jordan covering up sexual abuse in that scandal, and yet… he still remains a member of Congress.
- April 23rd, 2020: Jim Jordan refuses to wear a mask in a House Oversight Committee hearing, and claims that an oversight committee for the Coronavirus response is “a Democratic plot to attack Trump”.
- May 15th, 2020: Jordan votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- July 28th, 2020: Jim Jordan opens a hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr by, without permission, airing a video of out-of-context news footage (without the consent of the reporters giving those reports either), claiming that those protesting police violence are violent mobs.
- July 29th, 2020: Rep. Jordan is scolded by his Democratic colleagues for refusing to obey House rules and wear a mask during a meeting of the Technology Committee.
- July 31st, 2020: Jim Jordan is combative during a hearing on Covid-19, and while harassing Dr. Anthony Fauci, tries to target his questioning specifically to find out if he can shut down protests of police brutality and police murder around the country by using the pandemic as an excuse to deny protesters their right of assembly.
- August 20th, 2020: Rep. Jordan, the lemming that he is, follows Donald Trump off a cliff to back Trump’s calls to boycott the Goodyear Tire Company, who have a factory in Akron, Ohio, because the company called on its employees to not wear political clothing to work, such as any MAGA gear.
- October 20th, 2020: Rep. Jordan claims that social media platforms removing bogus stories about Hunter Biden’s supposed laptop having incriminating material on it is “censorship” when it’s their discretion to allow whatever content they want on their platforms. Especially when it’s supposed Russian propaganda aimed at meddling in American elections.
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