Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said Wednesday that it was “ridiculous” to think he wouldn’t have stood up for student wrestlers at Ohio State University if he truly knew a school doctor was sexually abusing them, as some former wrestlers have claimed.
“I’m telling the truth,” Jordan told reporters. “Look, I stood up to the speaker of the house from my home state, I stood up to the IRS and I’ve stood up to the FBI. To think that I would not stand up for my athletes is ridiculous.”
"I’m telling the truth … To think that I would not stand up for my athletes is ridiculous," Rep. Jordan says Wednesday in response to allegations that he knew of sexual abuse by Ohio State team doctor. https://t.co/raTPxm2WHf pic.twitter.com/yoGoFCcinI
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 11, 2018
After news first broke last week that former OSU wrestlers had accused Jordan of knowingly ignoring the late Dr. Richard Strauss sexual’s abuse when Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach at the school, the rightwing Ohio congressman has continued to deny knowledge of what the wrestlers say was systematic and widely known behavior.
More and more former wrestlers have since claimed Jordan knew what was going on. The congressman in turn hired a conservative PR firm as former coaches and fellow Republican congressman have come to his defense.
God, make me happy and let there be emails or something…
This is the best Jordan’s newly hired PR firm could come up with? Dear Lord…
Read Josh’s blog on this He nailed it as did I earlier
It seems quite possible that Jordan could have weathered the storm and put the story behind him if on the first reports he would have said some version of this: “I did hear stories about Dr. Strauss and I didn’t take them as seriously as I should. I was much younger. But I failed those kids and I deeply regret it.”
The default Republican position is to lie
Always
A situation that could have been rectified by the truth.
Truth
A foreign concept to all Republicans
I would think the reports of group monkey spanking while watching the wrestlers would be enough
So your history with the FBI needs to be considered? OK, fine, you have lied repeatedly about the FBI, including saying people had their phone calls subpoenaed, which Mr. Rosenstein of DOJ had to point out is something that is not possible. So I’m all for using your history of “standing up to the FBI” as a reference point.