Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) kicked off today’s highly anticipated hearing with Michael Cohen—President Donald Trump’s lawyer—with a fiery diatribe, calling Cohen’s appearance a sham. Jordan repeatedly attacked Cohen’s credibility, calling him a future federal inmate as a way to discredit his testimony.
.@Jim_Jordan calls today's hearing "The Michael Cohen hearing presented by Lanny Davis." "That's right, Lanny Davis choreographed the whole darn the Clinton's best friend." https://t.co/4G5QWrOU4l pic.twitter.com/1KCeVubgJs — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 27, 2019
Jordan also looped the Clinton’s into the whole thing, accusing the couple of orchestrating the hearing as a hit on the president.
But Jordan’s wild pontificating about morality, crimes, coverups, and truthfulness was undercut by the fact that Jordan currently stands accused of willfully ignoring a sexual abuse scandal while he was a wrestling coach at Ohio State.
Numerous former student-athletes said that Jordan was aware that Dr. Richard Strauss, an Ohio State employee, was sexually abusing athletes. Students at the school have said that Jordan knew what was going on and actively discouraged students from reporting it.
That hypocrisy was not missed by people watching the hearing.
Hey @Jim_Jordan, wouldn’t you love it if you’d be remembered for this hearing rather than for looking the other way while one of the coaches on your wrestling committee molested over 100 boys? — Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) February 27, 2019
IF ONLY Jim Jordan was as outraged at the sexual abuse of wrestling students on his watch as he is at COHEN for revealing the corruption of Donald Trump. #Shame https://t.co/1Uuln2gCdh — Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) February 27, 2019
Jim Jordan is just Joe Paterno without the coaching skills https://t.co/a7DsxLJfuY — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 27, 2019
jim jordan really wrestling with the issues here, pinning down the dems in way that should make everyone uncomfortable and unable to look away — Jake Swearingen (@JakeSwearingen) February 27, 2019
Rep. Jim Jordan (R) is wrestling with the conduct of this Cohen hearing. pic.twitter.com/0YSlnEuL6b — Tom Sherwood (@tomsherwood) February 27, 2019
Jim Jordan really wants Elijah Cummings to pay attention to the gym I mean set of rules instead of looking the other way and disregarding it — Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) February 27, 2019
Now Jim Jordan knows how it feels to voice concern only to be ignored by those above you. — Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) February 27, 2019
For someone who was aware of his athletes being sexually abused and chose to do nothing, Jim Jordan seems real offended to have a felon in the room. — Erin For President (@erinscafe) February 27, 2019
You can live stream Cohen’s hearing here.
WindmillOfBattleaxes on March 3rd, 2019 at 21:10 UTC »
It is amusing in an infuriating sort of way that this man had the gall to wail about Cohen being unable to be trusted when he let athletes under HIS watch get molested.
I was put in twitter jail for hounding every post of his from the last week with links to the scandal. I'm okay with that.
bebacterial on March 3rd, 2019 at 20:16 UTC »
how the hell did he get elected after that scandal? drag him through the mud. he fucking deserves it.
Outoftimess on March 3rd, 2019 at 19:56 UTC »
Party of Pedos
Denny Hassert Republican speaker of the house from 1999-2007 and child predator. He got busted by Patriot Act Laws he helped pass.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert
This is the Republican Party.