Republican Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, announced in August 2023 that he was launching an inquiry into Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis who had indicted Trump and 18 others for their involvement to overturn the results of the election in Georgia during the 2020 Presidential Election.
He did not mention the legal grounds for the investigation.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/politics/house-republican-conference-trump-defense/index.html
What would Jordan know about legal grounds?
He’s not a lawyer.
Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, never passed the Ohio bar exam.
https://news.yahoo.com/lawrence-o-donnell-tears-apart-072051757.html
Jordan’s only possible contribution to American politics is that he gives those who think Louis Gohmert is the dumbest and craziest member of Congress a point of comparison, as in, “Sure Gohmert may be nuts and stupid, but is he dumber and crazier than Jim Jordan?”
For pure sleaziness and slavishness, my money is on Jordan.
The Washington Post recorded more than 25,000 false and misleading statements by Trump during his presidency. And yet when Jordan was asked whether he had ever heard President Trump tell a lie, he said “I have not” and “nothing comes to mind.”
When Jim Jordan says, “nothing comes to mind,” it may be the most revealing comment about himself he’s ever made.
Before Jordan established himself as one of Trump’s most loyal sycophants, he was an assistant wrestling coach at The Ohio State University, when the team’s doctor sexually, Richard Strauss, molested 177 students, including many wrestlers, before committing suicide.
Jordan denied knowing that he knew anything about the sexual assaults.
But wrestlers have gone public saying they reported the incidents to Jordan who did nothing.
“Oh, that’s Strauss,” one wrestler said Jordan told him.
Another wrestler said that when he told Jordan, the future congressman said, “Yeah, yeah, we know.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/referee-says-he-told-rep-jim-jordan-ohio-state-doctor-n1078476
During a hearing on an Ohio bill that would allow victims of Strauss, a former Ohio State University doctor, to sue the university for damages, Adam DiSabato, a former Ohio State University wrestling team captain, testified the congressman asked him to deny comments made by his brother Michael, who also wrestled for OSU.
“Jim Jordan called me crying, groveling … begging me to go against my brother …. That’s the kind of cover-up that’s going on there,” DiSabato said, according to Cleveland.com.
Critics have compared these accusations to Jordan’s defense of President Trump who has bragged about physically abusing women and whom more than twenty women have accused of sexual assault or misconduct.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/jim-jordan-harassment-ohio-state-wrestling-699192
But there’s more.
Wesley Goodman, a pro-family, anti-LGBT conservative who supports traditional marriage who worked for Jordan before serving in the Ohio Legislature, resigned after he was caught having sex with another man in his office.
Dozens of other men, some underaged, came forward to report they had been sexually assaulted by Goodman.
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/11/ohio_legislator_wes_goodman_le.html
Jordan adamantly denied that he had any knowledge of Goodman’s notorious reputation.
Now, in some eras of American history, involvement in a sex scandal — or two – might ruin a politician or at least cause him to keep his distance from other politicians involved in accusations of sexual misconduct by two dozen women.
https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12
Not Jim Jordan.
He’s one of Donald Trump’s biggest, loudest, and most ignorant mouthpieces.
Jordan continues to insist that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional even though the Supreme Court has twice ruled that it was constitutional.
Jordan, it bears repeating, never passed the Ohio bar exam and is not a lawyer.
He perpetuated Trump’s lies and other misinformation about the coronavirus. He joined 126 members of Congress in a lawsuit that challenged the validity of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner, who, like Jordan, represented Ohio in Congress, called Jordan “asshole” and a “legislative terrorist.”
“Fuck Jordan,” Boehner said.
