“That fcking guy Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch.… While these maniacs are going through the place, I’m standing in the aisle and he said ‘We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.’ I smacked his hand away and told him, ‘Get away from me. You fcking did this.’

Liz Cheney, quoted in I Alone Can Fix This

YOU fcking did this! Now that is an awfully personal accusation. Try this, “You guys did this,” or “You all did this…” “You and Trump all did this…”  it sounds more natural in a chaotic setting, doesn’t it? But that’s not what Liz Cheney said. She said “you” to Jim Jordan. What does Cheney “know” informally?

Whatever it is, Jordan is in real trouble now that the House Committee is subpoenaing telecom records. Jordan says he cannot “remember” how many times he called Trump. That is odd. If it was once, or twice, one would almost certainly remember. But what if three or four of those calls came before people got in the building? What if the calls went back a couple of days? That would be harder to explain.

Frank Figliuzzi made the same point on Nicolle Wallace’s show on MSNBC yesterday. Jim Jordan is 100% caught and will have to fess up:

“I think we now know why Nancy Pelosi had to reject Jim Jordan.

He is a fact witness and he’s going to get a very complicated future ahead of him. Here is why: First, he claims that he can’t remember how many times on Jan. 6th he called the president or what time of day, that’s easily remedied by simply checking your phone log and checking that date. If he can’t do it, the phone company will be more than happy to supply the select committee with that. That’s going to happen eventually.

Next, he’s in a trick bag because if he concedes, as has been reported, that he actually called the president and said, ‘stand this crowd down, they’re inside, it is getting violent, you’ve got to stop them,’ that implies, of course, that he believed Trump controlled the crowd and had the ability to stop or start the crowd.”

“It hurts him because if he thinks the people were violent he goes back home to Ohio and his voter base says, wait a minute, those were patriots, those weren’t violent people. So, he can’t win there either. This gets extremely complicated.

That last part is especially true. When he goes home, he’s talking to people who are now considered freedom fighters! But back then, he wanted those animals off his back because it was getting out of hand. Remember, too – it was right after Pence proved that he was not going to “cheat” on behalf of Trump that Trump let loose with the tweet that really set things off. How much was that coordinated? As in “Get out! Now”??

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