Uh-oh! It looks like Rep. Jim Jordan might be in trouble. And, as usual, he only has himself to blame.
This week, the bipartisan House committee investigating January 6 released texts sent from congressional Republicans to ex-president Donald Trump‘s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days leading up to the insurrection.
Related: Jim Jordan is literally having a panic attack on Twitter about Christmas trees
Though the panel didn’t disclose which lawmakers sent the messages, it didn’t take long for people to figure out Jordan was among them. Mainly because he admitted to it.
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One of the texts read:
On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. ‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916). Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.
Jordan’s office confirmed yesterday that, OK, OK, the former college wrestling coach did, in fact, text with Meadows about ways to overturn the 2020 election results one day before to the insurrection, but that particular text was just a forward and he didn’t write it himself.
“Mr. Jordan forwarded the text to Mr. Meadows and Mr. Meadows certainly knew it was a forward,” Jordan’s spokesman tells NBC News.
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So, that makes it better, right? Right??
Wrong.
Whether Jordan wrote the text or simply forwarded it is irrelevant. The point is that he sent the president’s chief of staff supposed Constitutional backing for how the vice president could circumvent the Electoral College process. So now the question is: Why did he do this? That’s something Jordan won’t answer. Instead, he’s on Twitter trying to distract people with pressing questions such as this:
Does Santa Claus have to wear a mask?
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 15, 2021
CNN reports:
That should worry us all — and amounts to an escalation in Jordan’s conduct in and around the election. It’s no secret that Jordan has helped push former President Donald Trump’s false narrative that the 2020 election was somehow stolen…
Jordan was also one of 139 House Republicans to vote to sustain the objections to the Electoral College votes in either Pennsylvania or Arizona on January 6.Weirdly, less than a week later he insisted that “I’ve never said that this election was stolen.”
It’s getting harder and harder to tell what Jordan’s endgame is here. Or if he even has an endgame. Perhaps he’s banking on Republicans winning the House majority next November and making this whole thing go away? That’s still a year away, however. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned from 2021, a lot (a whole lot!) can happen in a year.
Now, some tweets…
There is nothing good about Jim Jordan.
He did NOTHING when he knew some of his wrestlers were being sexually abused when he was a coach at Ohio St.
As a Congressman, he did everything in his power to help organize a coup of a duly elected president.
He is rotten to the core.
— The Lincoln Watchman??? (@LincolnWatchman) December 16, 2021
Jim Jordan was definitely a material witness if not an active participant in efforts to overturn the election of 2020 based on his communication with Mark Meadows that came to light today. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right to reject him outright for the Committee.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) December 15, 2021
Who else thinks today is a GREAT day for the January 6 Committee to SUBPOENA JIM JORDAN?
cc: @January6thCmte
— Jon Cooper ?? (@joncoopertweets) December 16, 2021
No wonder Jim Jordan was nervously tripping over his words when asked if he had contact with Trump on Jan 6th.
It’s becoming increasingly clear now he too was actively engaged in pursuing unconstitutional means to stop Biden’s certification.
Just outrageous. https://t.co/A5icaMxqL4
— Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) December 16, 2021
Jim Jordan has absolutely no integrity. No wonder he’s a Trump favorite.
— gabby (@Gabby_ucm) December 16, 2021
Jim Jordan is a traitor. A criminal. A man who covered up sexual assault at Ohio State, covers up a terrorist insurrection at the Capitol, and was involved in trying to overthrow a legitimate election. He should be in prison. Yesterday.
— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) December 16, 2021
I’m not an obituary writer and Jim Jordan isn’t dead yet.
But “aided and abetted an attempted violent overthrow of democracy” and “aided and abetted the sexual assault of hundreds of male student athletes” is a lot to choose from.
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) December 16, 2021
Be careful what you wish for Gym. pic.twitter.com/jNJRdggxDi
— Gigi???? (@Gigiwaaaaaa) December 15, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Paris in Santiago
Sort of related but not. When is the Trump mafia family going to be led into Court? I am not familiar with your judicial system, but it appears that Don is dragging the cases until the next presidential election when he will apparently run, and possibly win!? Am I missing something here? Can anyone help me out and explain this? Please.
avesraggiana
I can’t give you a full explanation, but I can tell you this much – we are in deep shit in the US. Even before we have the 2024 presidential election, we will have the 2022 mid-term US Congress elections coming up in November 2022. The Republicans are set to reclaim the majority in the US House, which means that the special House Panel investigating the January 6th insurrection will be shut down. There will be no need for Trump and his cretinous family and his spineless, toadying enablers to wait as long as November 2024.
Also, the revelation of these texts will have no negative effect on Jim Jordan. In fact he could become THE MOST POWERFUL US House delegate starting in 2023. If anything these texts have just strengthened Jim Jordan’s street cred’ with the Republican base. They’re more likely to vote him back into his seat than ever.
In the meantime the Democrats will continue to suck at messaging, even after all the good things they’ve done for the country since January 2021. Worse than that, they’ll keep fighting amongst themselves, which will prevent anything more of any great significance getting done.
Fahd
This is my favorite of the tweets:
Jim Jordan is a traitor. A criminal. A man who covered up sexual assault at Ohio State, covers up a terrorist insurrection at the Capitol, and was involved in trying to overthrow a legitimate election. He should be in prison. Yesterday.
SamB
These texts are nothing. I’m sure the same type of texts were flying between Hilary and her team after she lost to Trump. Asking about something and doing it are two very different things.
mcflyer54
You’re sure? Evidence please or is that just your hatred talking? There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Hillary even thought such a thing.
SamB
mcflyer54: I didn’t say for sure, but I’m guessing I’m right based on all those hundreds of thousands of emails of hers that were leaked. She doesn’t seem like a cautious person.
okiloki
Bullshit. They investigated Hillary and found she did nothing wrong. They investigated Trump and found he did ask Russia for help to win the election and he did ask/tell multiple election officials to overturn the election in his favor. All of those officials who refused to do his bidding are now being targeted by Republicans so that next time Trump will succeed in his coup in 2024. God help this country then.
chacha
Somebody said something or the I heard this stuff is part of why we are living through this stuff now. donnie started spewing BullShit and the followers ate it up. The more outrageous/lies the more you guys thought it was true, then spread it as fact..
Hillary sat for questioning for just a little while. Answered all the questions, I don’t think ever plead the 5th. Now donnie looks for Anything, & it is ANYTHING, to not sit for a deposition. He will not answer any questions. None of his followers see an issue with this. The rest of the world knows he is hiding shit, how bad it is really is the question.
SamB
She was never cleared. She sat with FBI in 2016 but we don’t know what she talked about. In March 2020 a court ordered her to testify at a deposition regarding a lawsuit about her use of private servers… but as far as I know she has successfully avoided that.
I have no idea how anyone could back Hilary, it doesn’t take a lot of time or energy to find out just how corrupt she it.
Last note: there has never been proof Trump worked with Russia. Ever. If you can prove differently then show me where I can find this proof.
Kangol2
Nope, and no one from Hillary’s camp tried to storm the Capitol building (or Capital of the US) to prevent the orderly, lawful counting of votes, even though the US’s major antagonist, Russia, was actively involved in putting Don the Con into office. Whataboutism or both sides blah blah doesn’t apply here. Don the Con and the GOP were engaged in treasonous acts and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law! LOCK HIM UP, LOCK THEM UP, THROW AWAY THE KEYS!
Bosch
“yeah but Hillary” “no evidence of Russian interference” the combination of these two sentiments makes you sound very unbelievable.
jcool
SamB
1 – Hillary graciously conceded the next day
2 – she attended the inauguration
3 – Trump did neither
4 – Trump is the corrupt criminal
5 – you are a clown
Jaquelope
Why does Jordan think none of the electors was Constitutionally chosen? I’m sure safeguards are in place to make sure everything/everyone is legal.
I’m not even sure if I understand what makes someone an “illegal/Unconstitutional” elector. And why just in a couple of states?
Are they saying that simply because Trump lost, or do they have absolute proof that someone wasn’t legal? Seems that is something the GQP would do.
Kangol2
They’re full of sh!t and they know it. Don the Con lost the popular vote AGAIN and lost the electoral vote as well, but they were convinced they were going to install him again, as they did in 2016. It didn’t work this time. They lost states they’d barely won (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania) and states they’d never expected to lose (Arizona, Georgia), and Biden’s overall vote margin was 7 million votes and counting (as we saw with the recounts, Biden kept picking up new votes which weren’t properly counted!). That said, they committed what amounts to treason by trying to overthrow a legitimate election. They should be punished severely, or they’ll keep trying to do this again and again.
Jim
So the question is how often has Jim gone down on Donald.
Jaquelope
That’s a very good question.
And how many times did Jordan sexually assault an athlete. himself?
cuteguy
The sad part is is that the Dems should be taking full advantage of the GQP/KKK, but they’re trailing in the polls. It just shows how weak the Democratic Party really is
Ginger Tom
When the GOP talks about “voting fraud” or anything connected with it and everything that has stemmed from that claim, what they really mean but dare not say out loud is “too many black people voted.” To the GOP and its voters, overwhelmingly white, who never accepted the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s in their hearts, Jordan’s sweaty, corrupt white supremacy garbage is the path their views lead them on. Truth is they didn’t accept Civil Rights either and will do whatever is necessary to restore the society they knew before 1965.