Posted on 07/07/2018 8:31:14 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) reiterated through a spokesman on Friday that he is still awaiting an investigation to be completed over allegations that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) knew about claims of sexual abuse involving the Ohio State University wrestling team.
"These are serious allegations and issues," Ryan's spokesman Doug Andres told USA Today in an email. "The university has rightfully initiated a full investigation into the matter. The speaker will await the findings of that inquiry."
Ryan's office had released the statement earlier this week amid the July 4 recess, but reiterated his position after more former wrestlers at Ohio State accused Jordan, a leader of the House Freedom Caucus, of knowing about alleged sexual abuse by the team doctor and not taking action.
Former UFC heavyweight champion Mark Coleman on Thursday became fifth former OSU wrestler to accuse Jordan of not taking action while serving as an assistant coach, saying that unless Jordan has "dementia" he knew about the alleged abuse.
Theres no way unless hes got dementia or something that hes got no recollection of what was going on at Ohio State, Coleman said. I have nothing but respect for this man, I love this man, but he knew as far as Im concerned.
One of Jordans former wrestlers, Dunyasha Yetts, came forward this week and said that he and his teammates personally complained to Jordan and others about a team doctors inappropriate sexual behavior many times.
Jordan pushed back strongly against the accusations in a Fox News interview Friday night, arguing that conversations in the locker room did not amount to formal accusations and saying that no one directly reported abuse to him.
Conversations in a locker room are a lot different than allegations of abuse or reported abuse, Jordan said Friday, adding that no one ever reported any abuse to me.
Perkins Coie went to OSU with these stories and told OSU they would do the "investigation"!
WHY would OSU HIRE Perkins Coie?? WHY?? They didn't
.Perkins Coie, Hilliarys' hitmen HAD to go to OSU to get this SLIME ball rolling!
The time has come to take these people out.
Coleman....DEAD BROKE with a GO FUND ME!! etc.
My question is why didn’t mark Coleman protect himself?
Why is it someone else’s job?
If it didn’t matter to him, it doesn’t matter to me.
When even the NYPost has a misleading headline trying to make it seem like Jordan has been accused of sex abuse, you know what massive opposition there is to PDJTs America First agenda.
Wondering the same...
Exactly.
Aside from the fact that Jim Jordan and Mark Coleman are exactly the same age, and Mark Coleman was a collegiate heavyweight champion (185+ pounds).
Jordan was in the 135 pound weight class, so he needed to be able to protect the snowflake heavyweight guy, Coleman. /s
Where does Jordan go to get his reputation back????
Even Fox is getting their hooks in.
They are all slime....Fox as well as the others!
Aberrant nonsense. There is no investigation. There are no charges. There are no victims and there is no perpetrator. The complaints refer to locker room horseplay centered around the doctor’s examination for hernias which involved touching the scrotum while the patient coughed. That’s it. There is nothing more. The good dead doc is accused of doctoring, nothing more.
These were strong young men fully capable of rejecting homosexual advances had they occurred. This is more democrat feces used to smear people of quality.
“”Ryan is correct in waiting for the results of an investigation before committing””
Before committing to WHAT? His statement doesn’t make any sense. It’s not like an investigation is going to be over in a matter of days. Afraid to take a stand and defend a fellow congressman? What a piece of garbage!
“”None of the wrestlers spoke out against the doctor during all that time?””
Only after he pulverized Rosenstein in the committee hearing last week.. Certainly difficult NOT to believe it’s a total set up and they didn’t waste any time, did they? A coincidence? HA!
obama is waging guerrilla warfare against republicans and trump. Trump should have him indicted for perjury in the use of FISA and for engaging in a coup d’tat. Until People are imprisoned this war will continue.
“”What ever happened to that slush fund? What about Americas rightto know which legislators used it? So much for transparency.””
HA! The same thing that happened to Biden’s responsibility to account for all the stimulus funds OR the investigation and answer to what happened to Hillary losing $6 Billion in State Department funds...
You know, I’ll tell you what. When I was 7 years old, I was handled in a very illegal manner by the husband of the after school daycare lady I was dropped off at after school by bus.
Everyday, the school bus dropped off a load of us kids at the house, and Julius was waiting. He did this to all males. I saw it over a period of about two weeks I want to say. Then he tried to coax me into the garage to see his “moon rock”.
That evening I went home and told my mom. I, a victim, stood up for myself and for his other victims. I was 7 years old.
As far as I know, the outcome was that the complaint was covered up by the school, to which my mom had reported it. She did not report it to the police, because my dad convinced her otherwise, for some silly reason. My dad was always known to be an idiot though.
Moral to the story. It is Mark Coleman’s job to stand up for Mark Coleman. It isn’t Jim Jordan’s job, or anyone else’s.
“”These are serious allegations and issues,” Ryan’s spokesman Doug Andres told USA Today in an email. “The university has rightfully initiated a full investigation into the matter. The speaker will await the findings of that inquiry.”
Yeh, it’s all about the seriousness of the charge, right Ryan? What a piece of leftist scum. Up yours, traitor Ryan.
I wouldn’t put it past Ryan to be involved in this somehow.
The doctor who allegedly did the abusing, was the doctor for all the other students who played other sports for the school. Only two wrestlers have made allegations. No allegations have been made by any other sports player.
What most of the stories U have seen deliberately omit is the fact that the behavior in question was a hernia check. During an exam, the doctor puts his fingers under the scrotum and the wrestler turns his head and coughs.
It is a standard component of any male’s sports physical, and at the elite collegiate wrestling level it makes sense to me that it would be part of every exam. I didn’t wrestle in college, but it makes sense.
By leaving the fact that this was a portion of a medical exam, they create innuendo that it is much, much worse.
They’ll hire Ken Starr to “paterno” Jordan.
Cure for people that stab others in the back is to expose the things they have hidden, don’t ya think?
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