Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, known for being a loudmouth except when it came to abuse of young athletes he coached in school, is talking again. This time it’s to confirm that he was the sender of a text message uncovered by the House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to the riot at the Capitol.
The message, forwarded by Jordan to former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, was originally authored by Joseph Schmitz, the former inspector general at the Pentagon. The intent of the text was to describe a method by which the 2020 election could be overturned by having Vice President Mike Pence simply throw out any state’s electoral votes he found to be “unconstitutional.”
During a panel hearing earlier this week, Rep. Adam Schiff showed a graphic that contained a portion of the message, but inadvertently included punctuation where none had existed in the original. It didn’t change the meaning or context of anything in the message, but Republicans pounced on the error.
The graphic read:
On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.
The original text had no period at the end.
Jordan’s admission comes after an argument about the source of the sentiment contained in the text — whether it had been authored by Jordan himself, or it was a forwarded message. Jordan’s office told news outlets that “Mr Jordan forwarded the text to Mr Meadows, and Mr Meadows certainly knew it was a forward.”
But the original text, viewed byΒ The Independent and others, has nothing in it to indicate that it was a forward nor who the original author of the message was. Unfortunately for Jordan and Meadows, whether it was written by Schmitz is largely irrelevant. If Meadows “knew it was a forward,” then without any indicators in the text that it wasn’t written by Jordan, it would mean that Meadows was already familiar with the message.
Either way, both Jordan and Meadows, high-ranking Republicans at the time, were interested enough in the subject to prove without doubt that they wanted and intended to find a way to overturn the election.
Twitter had some thoughts:
SMOKING GUN! Jim Jordan sent a text message to Mark Meadows urging Pence to OVERTURN an American election.
Retweet if you agree Jim Jordan is a TRAITOR who must be ARRESTED and EXPELLED from Congress. β
— Chip Franklin.com (@chipfranklin) December 16, 2021
Jim Jordan sent text messages to Mark Meadows on January 6th, and Republicans wanted him on the select committee.
— ππ²πΆπΆπ π π«ππ΅πΈ (@JimmyJ4thewin) December 16, 2021
Now itβs confirmed that pervert Jim Jordan sent one of the texts to Mark Meadows with guidance on how to commit sedition.
Who else recalls that treasonous coward Kevin McCarthy and GQPers tried putting him on the January 6 Committee? Now you see why.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) December 16, 2021
There is a literal text from Jim Jordan forwarded to Mark Meadows on January 5th. Jim's text lays out a "legal strategy" on how Trump and Pence could "legally" overturn the 2020 election. Is this incriminating evidence against Jim Jordan? I'd say so.
— The Gen Z Perspective POD (@GenZPerspectiv) December 16, 2021
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The Jim Jordan texts to Mark Meadows are especially great because when we read them, not only do we know he is guilty as fuck, but we also don't have to hear his weird ass, whiny voice.
— Kyla in the Burgh π΄ββ οΈπ₯ (@KylaInTheBurgh) December 16, 2021
Jim Jordan confirms he sent one of the seditious texts to Mark Meadows. Nancy Pelosi was right – as usual.
— anyone_want_chips (@anyonewantchips) December 16, 2021
A woman voted twice and got 5 years jail. Jim Jordan and many other sent texts on how to illegally change the election outcome. Why is this not a reason for a long jail time
— A man called David π πποΈββοΈπππ¬π§πΊπΈ (@Davidtweets13) December 16, 2021
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