Posted on 07/10/2018 7:17:38 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Jim Jordan said he is still contemplating a bid for Speaker if the GOP keeps its majority, even as the Ohio Republican battles allegations that he ignored accusations of sexual abuse on the Ohio State University wrestling team while he was a coach there.
“If and when there’s a Speaker’s race, I plan on being a part of the discussion,” Jordan, flanked by several members of the Freedom Caucus, told The Hill on Tuesday evening after House votes.
As he hustled through the Capitol tunnels with his jacket thrown over his shoulder, Jordan continued to adamantly deny that he had any knowledge that his wrestlers were allegedly being abused by a team doctor decades ago, and said he wants to see justice served if there were any victims.
“The investigation is going on, and if there were people who were harmed, they deserve justice,” Jordan told The Hill.
Tuesday marks the first time Jordan has spoken to reporters on Capitol Hill since the initial bombshell accusations broke last week. A handful of camera crews and reporters were camped outside Jordan’s office in the Rayburn Building throughout the day.
At least five former Buckeye wrestlers have now stated that Jordan knew or must have known about the sexual abuse of Ohio State athletes while he was an assistant wrestling coach there from 1987 to 1995.
Allies have rushed to Jordan’s defense, including 14 former OSU wrestlers who went on the record Tuesday to refute the claims.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said he and Jordan had spoken to every member of the roughly 30-member conservative group and that everyone was backing Jordan.
There is "unanimous support for Jim Jordan" in the Freedom Caucus, Meadows — perhaps Jordan's closest friend in Congress — told reporters Tuesday night.
Meadows said he saw no reason why Jordan needed to step down from the Freedom Caucus leadership team and suggested that Jordan's reputation had not been tarnished by the Ohio State allegations.
"Jim Jordan is a man of integrity and honor who always fights for the underdog," Meadows said just off the House floor. "His reputation with us has been built with me over the last six years. Any story that would suggest that he is someone who is not willing to fight for those who have been disadvantaged is just not accurate based on the man I've come to know and admire."
"He was one of many coaches at Ohio State and to suggest that this is somehow Jordan's fault, is just not accurate," Meadows continued. "There are motives that are at play here that are disappointing."
Jordan also has the backing of President Trump and GOP party leaders.
"I talked to him over the weekend — I called him. I talked to him to see how he's doing from a couple of different bases, and, you know, the loss of his nephew," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Tuesday. "I don't know what happened 20 years ago at Ohio State. … The only person I know in this whole thing is Jim, and Jim to me has been an honest person all the time. And I think if he saw something, he would say it.”
The Swamp does not want an honest Speaker.
God only knows the last time we had one.
nopardons, you don’t know squat. I first found Freepers when they busted the Dan Rather’s story about GWB. I’ve been on this site for a while. You are full of yourself. Sorry I haven’t posted that much, but at least when I do I don’t come off like a D-Bag like a freeper I know. I don’t think my comments come off like a “snowflake”. I think your comments come off like an unhinged Donkey: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wwaMpRjFapY/TlAu0_8RoGI/AAAAAAAAC20/vUqQrv0lgjk/s1600/funny+donkeys+walpapers+1.jpg
Obviously, you haven't learned much, if anything, by reading FR, since your first reaction, vis-a-vis the whole Jordan "lynching", is to send him "nice notes".
Politics IS a "blood sport"; OPENLY more so now, than in most people's memories. Though the many decades old hounding of Mr. Nixon, was almost as openly vicious.
Until you can manage to refute my posts, abstain from the rather pathetic "insults", I suggest that you go run off to your nearest "safe space" and attempt to assuage your terminally childish "woundings" and calm down.
Refute your posts? This all you have posted except for the insults:
Run Jim, run for it and I hope you win it!
Agreed!
I was for Jim before this...now I am ONLY for him and nobody else; or else!
Sadly, truth be told, there’s not really much of anything any of us CAN do to help him.
Someone once told me that the bigger fool is the one that argues with a fool. So, I will let you take this one and not argue anymore. Good luck Freeper.
Jordan for Speaker.
If you can't take the heat...stay out of the kitchen;n00b.
I hope he does. The deep state is doing everything it can to prevent him from being speaker.
Pssssssssssssssst...I meant my posts to you, which you omitted in toto; n00b. You’re really something else again...none of it any good.
I’m pulling for Jim, but one thing you’ll notice is how the idea to hold Rosenstein in contempt and impeach him has grow totally silent. The DOJ and FBI can ruin anyone
We need Jim in Speaker’s chair
The Hill will continue to publish lies and disinformation even though The Hill is another American incarnation of Hitler’s Ministry of Propaganda.
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