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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 05:44 AM Feb 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan Shoots Himself In The Foot With 'Monumentally Dumb' Defense Of Trump

02/11/2021 23:32 EST

The Ohio Republican argued Trump didn't incite the riot because it was planned before the day it occurred.
By Josephine Harvey, HuffPost US

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was roundly mocked Thursday for arguing that former President Donald Trump couldn’t have incited the riot at the U.S. Capitol because it was planned days before it took place.

“How do you incite a riot that was already going to happen?” he asked, noting that the FBI was aware of the potential threat before Jan. 6, that pipe bombs were placed in Washington the night before and that Capitol Police asked before the event for the National Guard to be on standby.

Those elements are all true, and they happened following a months-long disinformation campaign spearheaded by Trump to convince voters that the 2020 election had been rigged. His supporters ― among them extremists, white nationalists and conspiracy theorists ― congregated Jan. 6 in Washington after Trump explicitly asked them, over the course of several weeks, to be there. He and his allies then urged them to march on the Capitol and “stop the steal.”

Trump was impeached by the House on Jan. 13 on a charge of incitement to insurrection. Democrats are seeking to convict him in the Senate trial and bar him from holding future office. In the third day of trial proceedings Thursday, House impeachment managers argued Trump could further incite violence if he’s allowed to run again.

More:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/jim-jordan-impeachment-defense_n_6025f3e3c5b6741597e0edd4

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Rep. Jim Jordan Shoots Himself In The Foot With 'Monumentally Dumb' Defense Of Trump (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2021 OP
Yo, Jim Jordan... Mike Nelson Feb 2021 #1
At one time I lived in his District and safeinOhio Feb 2021 #2
That is the understatement True Blue American Feb 2021 #16
Me too! 2Gingersnaps Feb 2021 #20
Welcome officially to our DU family. So glad you finally came in from the cold. niyad Feb 2021 #34
Don't Tease Me Like That! Nocturnowl Feb 2021 #3
Me too. Dream Girl Feb 2021 #10
Me three! niyad Feb 2021 #35
Gym Jordan is such a dumbass mdbl Feb 2021 #4
Dumber Ones... mezame Feb 2021 #5
Dumber still OldBaldy1701E Feb 2021 #11
Heavily gerrymandered district. 2Gingersnaps Feb 2021 #21
I don't know what is more upsetting OldBaldy1701E Feb 2021 #22
His spawn and Tuberville were meeting at Trump hotel dawg day Feb 2021 #6
I thought these were good people who got caught up in the moment rpannier Feb 2021 #7
The best Ohio can offer? Apparently. SmartVoter22 Feb 2021 #8
Jordan is one True Blue American Feb 2021 #19
Funny thing is, Jordan is responsible for holding up two of trumps biggest plans. oldsoftie Feb 2021 #9
Sorry, but you spelled Freedumb wrong. gab13by13 Feb 2021 #17
Lol oldsoftie Feb 2021 #23
Don't forget Snoopy 7 Feb 2021 #12
Gym Jordan is a despicable man. gademocrat7 Feb 2021 #13
God weissmam Feb 2021 #14
Dumber than dirt... SergeStorms Feb 2021 #15
So stupid HuskyOffset Feb 2021 #18
Stupidest Ohioan who ever lived. NEOBuckeye Feb 2021 #24
There's a lot of stupid everywhere. twodogsbarking Feb 2021 #27
Didn't he come from Michegan? (Asked while seaching Jim's BC for a loop hole). marble falls Feb 2021 #29
Ah, there it is! Geechie Feb 2021 #31
Never got over it. The only thing I like about Michigan is Ann Arbor less the university. marble falls Feb 2021 #32
I still remember Geechie Feb 2021 #33
It speaks volumes that someone so stupid and so corrupt can get elected to office Escurumbele Feb 2021 #25
He's got brain plaque, tennis elbow, jock itch, AND a ventilated athlete's foot Blue Owl Feb 2021 #26
He can shoot himself in the foot, too bad he can't shoot off the limb he's on. marble falls Feb 2021 #28
He's just a dick johnnyfins Feb 2021 #30
He has shot himself in the foot so many times murielm99 Feb 2021 #36

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
16. That is the understatement
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:40 AM
Feb 2021

Of the year! Let us hope that lawsuit of him ignoring child sex abuse succeeds!

Redistricting happens this year with an unbiased panel in charge!

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)
20. Me too!
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:46 AM
Feb 2021

I lived in Bellefontaine for 30 years. Physically beautiful, but damn! They called Confederates in Ohio during the Civil War "Copperheads." You know, Ohio pit vipers. There are more Confederates there now than there was during the Civil War. And yes, back in the day I was very active in Logan Country Democratic Party. I attended candidate debates, back when he would show up for them. And yes, Gym Jordan (as we call him here in OSU country) is every bit as dumb as he appears. He can only talk in RNC bullet points, it doesn't get any deeper than that.

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)
21. Heavily gerrymandered district.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:50 AM
Feb 2021

Check out Ohio's Congressional districts. This one is particularly infamous. Shaped like a duck. But make no mistake, Civics isn't on the curriculum here.

OldBaldy1701E

(4,963 posts)
22. I don't know what is more upsetting
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 09:02 AM
Feb 2021

the fact that this keeps happening in district designation, or that those who want it (or are convinced to allow it) this way continue to actively vote against themselves. I guess Forrest was right...

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
6. His spawn and Tuberville were meeting at Trump hotel
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:35 AM
Feb 2021

The night before. So yeah, there was planning... by Trump.

SmartVoter22

(639 posts)
8. The best Ohio can offer? Apparently.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:52 AM
Feb 2021

Each state it's own problems with the...Jim Jordans'.

You know the kind... little, dreamy eyed, '11 year olds as they gaze over the Trump poster hanging over their bed'
meaning the Republicans elected since Tea Party Paranoia took it over and then Trumpism, Ohio has the best one of these.

Jordan must think like one of these 11 yr olds, he certainly displays the semi-sociopathic 'mean girls' approach to life.

So a national insurgency happens, only on the day it happens?
--no plane tickets planned... except on that one day.
-- no gun shopping... except on that one day.
--no cellphone chargingin... except on that one day.

OK Jimmy, Ohio is getting sick of this, and you... except on this one day. Today.

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
19. Jordan is one
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:44 AM
Feb 2021

Of the original tea party. They are losing ground. Matt Gaetz, Steve. Scalise, who is curiously silent, Kevin McCarthy, Gohmart. What a bunch of useless Congress people.

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
9. Funny thing is, Jordan is responsible for holding up two of trumps biggest plans.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:10 AM
Feb 2021

But the right just LOVES him.

Trump COULD have had billions for the wall but the Jordan-led "freedom caucus" refused to go along with it because of deals with the democrats. Trump would've signed it
Trump also wanted a big infrastructure bill. The Freedom caucus blocked that as well, because it also had parts that democrats wanted. Trump would've signed that bill also.

But they all think Jordan is the #1 trump backer

Snoopy 7

(521 posts)
12. Don't forget
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:21 AM
Feb 2021

One must not let stupid people get in the way of seeing the facts. Of course he knew and he knew because the FBI warned them of the insurrectionist and of their possible plans. Therefor trump also knew and did NOTHING to stop or hinder the event. Not only did trump not doing anything his administration changed the date and route of the demonstration to Dec 6. The demonstration wasn't set for the 6th it was trump who set it up and that's after the FBI warned them of what could possibly happen. Also don't you think if trump was ever in danger he would have been taken away to a safer area. He would not have be left at the "party" watching the tv events and he was seen celebrating the possible overturning of our Democracy?

gademocrat7

(10,623 posts)
13. Gym Jordan is a despicable man.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:27 AM
Feb 2021

He and his band of dunces are a blight on the House of Representatives.

HuskyOffset

(885 posts)
18. So stupid
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:43 AM
Feb 2021

Let's use a sports analogy, so Jacketless Jackass Gym Jordan can understand:

It's like a coach giving a rousing pregame locker room speech to his players, getting them fired up. Everyone knew for months that the game was going to be played, but the pregame speech made a difference.

Hopefully that helps Gym understand. I couldn't think of any way to work in sexual harassment of the players for Gym to criminally ignore, so he probably still won't get it.

Geechie

(857 posts)
33. I still remember
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 09:11 AM
Feb 2021

The story about coach Woody Hayes - “I’m not buying one g—d— drop of gas in Michigan!”

Escurumbele

(3,340 posts)
25. It speaks volumes that someone so stupid and so corrupt can get elected to office
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 02:07 PM
Feb 2021

The country MUST BE educated, if education doesn't improve more idiots like Jordan and trump will be holding office.

We need people to be educated so that they can see who people like Hawley, Cruz, Graham really are, they need to see beyond their words, and without education they will believe anything that sounds good, that is how dictators gain power, with great speeches to the uneducated.

murielm99

(30,655 posts)
36. He has shot himself in the foot so many times
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 02:43 PM
Feb 2021

that I am surprised he has any feet left.

Shoeless Joe played baseball. Footless Jordan pretends to be a Congressman.

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