Freedom Caucus Member: Trump’s Tweets Blaming Us ‘Don’t Change Facts’

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a key member and founder of the conservative Freedom Caucus, arrives for a TV interview at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, as the GOP's long-promised legislation to repeal and replace "Obamacare" comes to a showdown vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a key member and founder of the conservative Freedom Caucus, arrives for a TV interview at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, as the GOP's long-promised legislation to repea... Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a key member and founder of the conservative Freedom Caucus, arrives for a TV interview at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, as the GOP's long-promised legislation to repeal and replace "Obamacare" comes to a showdown vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a member of the House Freedom Caucus who President Donald Trump went after by name, on Sunday brushed off Trump’s “tweets and statements and blame” as immaterial compared to “facts.”

“Tweets and statements and blame don’t change facts. And the facts remain the same. When you look at the document, you look at the legislation, it doesn’t repeal Obamacare,” Jordan said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to House Republicans’ failed health care bill.

On Thursday morning, Trump vowed to “fight” the House Freedom Caucus “in 2018.”

Later the same day, Trump called out three members of the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus — Jordan and Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Raúl Labrador (R-ID) — in a tweet telling them to “get on board” with his agenda.

White House social media director and senior adviser Dan Scavino Jr. on Saturday called Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), another member of the caucus, a “big liability” and urged a primary challenger to unseat him during midterms.

The House Freedom Caucus answered Trump’s attacks on Friday from its own Twitter account, and by mid-afternoon Saturday, Amash was raising funds off of Scavino’s threat.

“If one year from today you and Congressman Amash and Mark Meadows and Raúl Labrador and all the other members of the Freedom Caucus are facing primary challenges from Trump-supported candidates, then you’re not going to be able to focus on all the things you want to accomplish for the American people,” Jake Tapper said.

“Competition is fine. I’ve never shied away from competition,” Jordan replied. “If that’s what happens, that’s what happens.”

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  1. Apparently Jordan didn’t read Trump tweet of all the love and strength in R party.

  2. When did Republicans start caring about facts?

    Tread carefully, Rep. Jordan. Your constituents might not like this new acceptance of fact-based reality. Before you know it, you’ll be admitting climate change is real.

  3. Just found out that it is possible to use Schadenfreude in the making of a Mimosa.

  4. Bring on the Democratic challengers!!!

  5. Don’t worry, dummy. Nothing can change the fact that the Freedumb Caucus is a bunch of willfully ignorant assholes.

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