Posted on 10/10/2023 7:15:50 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Four of the former Ohio State University wrestlers who have accused Rep. Jim Jordan of failing to protect them from a sexual predator when he was the team’s assistant coach in the 1980s and '90s said Tuesday he has no business being the next speaker of the House.
“Do you really want a guy in that job who chose not to stand up for his guys?” said former OSU wrestler Mike Schyck, one of the hundreds of former athletes and students who say they were sexually abused by school doctor Richard Strauss and have sued the university. “Is that the kind of character trait you want for a House speaker?”
The wrestlers’ decisions to weigh in adds a new dimension to the speaker race, bringing in a controversial part of Jordan’s past that continues to hang over the Ohio Republican and staunch ally of former President Donald Trump.
So far, the OSU affair hasn’t received much focus — one GOP congresswoman recently said she wasn’t even aware of the allegations — but it could continue to follow Jordan. Even if he becomes speaker, there’s a chance he could be deposed in one of the lawsuits.
Jordan is the only declared candidate competing against House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., for the top job in Congress — a post that opened up after an internal GOP revolt ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
The House speaker is also second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president.
Dunyasha Yetts, another former OSU wrestler who has publicly and repeatedly accused Jordan of lying about not knowing what Strauss was doing to the athletes, said the congressman’s “hypocrisy is unbelievable.”
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Take him out at all costs.
Was Pat Patterson involved?
Here we go again. Back in 2019 or ‘20 they trotted out the “dark wrestling past” of Jim Jordan. I think he was a homo or child molesting wrestler then.
Sexual abuse is no laughing matter, but I found it preposterous that collegiate wrestlers of all people could be victimized by a doctor who was allegedly abusing them until he was 60 years old.
Not this #$%% again.
Old song. Heard it before. Screw the detractors and their faux outrage.
I wonder if NBC has ever ran a negative story on Pelosi. Doubtful.
The House Speaker job attracts wrestling coaches.
That didn't sound right. So what happened?
“Four of the former Ohio State University wrestlers who have accused Rep. Jim Jordan of failing to protect them from a sexual predator when he was the team’s assistant coach in the 1980s and ‘90s said Tuesday he has no business being the next speaker of the House. “
So lets get this straight- four college wrestlers, ages somewhere between 19 to 22, needed assistance protecting themselves from a sexual predator?? They must’ve really sucked at their sport
Biased man spews biases.
It would be nice if the deep staters in congress and gov’t went blind for 3 full years....Not forever, just enough so the country could breathe without the next shoe dropping all the time.....
So let me get this straight. Adult wrestlers needed Jim Jordan to protect them?
It seems that the left does not want Jim.
FU, Comcast
They are probably wrestling as women now.
Let me guess.
51 former wrestlers are going to publish a letter in the NYT stating that Jim Jordan forced them to be urinated upon by Russian prostitutes.
Another case of the UniParty throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks.
Jim Jordan will find out how hard it is to fight the deep state. Over the target!
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