Scalise Backs Jordan Amid Wrestlers’ Allegations Of Negligence, Lying

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 29: House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill, November 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
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Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) released a statement Monday in support of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) who has been embroiled in accusations that he knew of and ignored the rampant sexual abuse pervading the Ohio State University wrestling team he coached—all of which he now denies.

According to a Monday Politico report, Scalise chose to believe Jordan over the seven former wrestlers who have now stepped forward to contradict Jordan’s claims of ignorance.

“I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest, and I’m confident he would stand up for his athletes, just like he’s always stood up for what’s right,” Scalise said in the statement. “I’m glad that Jim is committed to working with the investigators to see that the full truth comes out and justice is served.”

Several of the former wrestlers maintain that Jordan definitely knew that team doctor Richard Strauss was habitually abusing many of them and their peers while he was working as assistant coach, despite his denials.

Strauss committed suicide in 2005 and the university has since opened an investigation into his actions. Ethics experts sent a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics Monday calling for an investigation into Jordan’s claims that he was ignorant of the widespread abuse.

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  1. You see Kirsten Gillibrand, first move isn’t to throw your teammate under the bus to prove your purity.

    Now mind you I think JJ is guilty AF of lying and enabling, but R’s do a consistent job of circling wagons, the traitorous bastards.

  2. “Truth? Truth? We don’ need no stinkin’ truth!”

  3. “I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest, and I’m confident he would stand up for his athletes, just like he’s always stood up for what’s right,” Scalise said in the statement.

    You know, until Jordan is arrested for NOT protecting “his athletes.”

  4. Avatar for litho litho says:

    I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest

    That word “honest,” it must have a different meaning for Republicans than it does for normal people…

  5. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    “I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest."


    Cooper pressed on: "But I mean, have you ever heard the President lie? That’s why I’m asking you?

    "I have not," said Jordan. "And the American people feel like what the treatment he’s receiving from the top people of the FBI …"

    "I don’t think you can talk about all the American people," Cooper interrupted. "But I’m asking you – just yourself, have you ever heard the President lie?"

    "I have not," Jordan reiterated.


    Yup–We can trust Jim Jordan. :laughing:

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