I saw this news this today: Former Ohio State University wrestler calls out GOP Rep. Jim Jordan: “It’s just going to get worse” .
I have disliked this man first since seeing him defend Trump and the GOP, but knew little about him. Well, now I know more:
The Ohio State University wrestling scandal has exploded back into national headlines with the accusation by former wrestler Adam DiSabato that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) — who is accused of ignoring the sexual assault of his athletes by school physician Richard Strauss — called him and begged him to deny the allegations being brought forward by DiSabato’s brother Michael.
On MSNBC’s “AM Joy” on Saturday, DiSabato warned Jordan that the scandal isn’t going away — and that more will come out that will make him look worse.
The reason I heard about this is because of this video , which is of DiSabato’s brother testifying in court about Jim Jordan’s knowledge of the abuse and his involvement in an on-going attempt to cover it up (1:22 testimony followed by 3 minutes of commentary w/info).
From the Slate article:
“The congressman is calling you a liar,” said host Joy Reid. “Your response, sir?”
“Well, in his statement, he didn’t say that he didn’t call me. I find that amusing, because, you know, he — he knows that he called me that day, and there’s proof and he doesn’t want to go there. So as far as the lie, I’ve already gone over this several times. I mean, it was blatant knowledge throughout our wrestling team, and there’s others that are going to come out on my behalf, and it’s just going to get worse.”
“Jim Jordan is just a symptom of the bigger problem at Ohio State,” added DiSabato. “He had superiors, Russ Hellickson, who I just found out called me a liar as well. This guy, we have text messages of him sending it to my teammates telling them to flip. So these people are delusional. And, you know, it’s all going to come out and Ohio State is — it’s going to get worse, because there’s other things that are going to come out. You know, they — they don’t want to go there.”
Why wouldn’t they want to go there? Good question:
“And for — I was going to ask you, you say things are going to come out, is there specific evidence that you have, or that you or others that were victims or connected to victims at Ohio State have, that Jordan himself knew about the abuse that was taking place?”
“Yes,” said DiSabato. “I mean, the fact that he called me on the Fourth of July. I haven’t talked to this guy in, you know — the last time I saw him was at my teammate Kevin Randleman’s funeral. And Kevin Randleman was a captain as well. If he was alive, he’d be sitting here next to me, you know, with the same story, because he was adamant against it as well. So, you know, to keep denying it is just digging himself a bigger hole. If he would have just came out at the beginning and said, hey, you know, our superiors did nothing, then I wouldn’t be here right now. You think I want to be here?”
I found this on his Wikipedia page :
Jordan has refused to cooperate with investigations into Strauss.[85] Jordan described his accusers as “pawns in a political plot”[86] and insists that he did not even hear any locker room talk about Strauss or sexual abuse at OSU.[87] In response to Jordan’s denials, Mike DiSabato said: “I considered Jim Jordan a friend. But at the end of the day, he is absolutely lying if he says he doesn’t know what was going on.”[88][89]
On July 13, 2018, the editorial board of the Cleveland Plain Dealer asserted that “Jim Jordan must acknowledge what he knew”.[90]
In May 2019, DiSabato filed a Title IX lawsuit against OSU. In one count of the court papers, DiSabato claimed that a second cousin of Jordan’s attempted to “intimidate and retaliate” against DiSabato.[91][92] In 2019, DiSabato shared text messages with NBC News that were corroborated by another former wrestler[93] indicating that Jim Jordan, Russ Hellickson, and high school wrestling coach Jeff Jordan (Jim Jordan’s younger brother)[94] conspired to engage in witness tampering and intimidation when they called Coleman and Coleman’s parents to pressure Coleman to recant his earlier accusation that Jordan was aware of the abuse.[93]
In November 2019, a retired wrestling referee filed a lawsuit alleging that he had warned Jordan and Hellickson about Strauss’ misconduct.[95][96] Jordan promptly dismissed the referee as “another person making a false statement”.
So this news isn’t exactly new, and it didn’t discourage his re-election in 2018.
Will this impact his re-election efforts this year and how?
And what else do we know and think about him?
He lives 5 miles from me.
You should move further away from that psycho.
Doubtful. The GOP base are so terrified and disgusted by muslims, brown people and democrats that they’ll happily vote for a child molester or someone who covers up sex crimes if it means keeping America white and conservative.
Sad times we live in.
He’s a perfect specimen of grotesque for that clown posse we will watch scurrying for shelter very soon.
You remember how Kentucky Senator Rand Paul got his punk ass handed to him by his neighbor? That could be you and Jordan! You’d be famous!
I can come out there and hold his arms behind his back, if necessary.
No, he has no primary challengers and there’s zero chance of him losing in the general. He won by 30 points in 2018.
I don’t know where the bizarre idea that white mostly-uneducated Republicans might vote against a child molester comes from. Sure, in an open primary they might prefer the non-molester if he’s a Republican. But they’ll vote for a child-molesting Republican over any Democrat.
Yes, Roy Moore was defeated in Alabama, but that’s only because Black Alabamans turned out in record numbers. Here are statistics about the white vote in the election Moore lost. (The graphic I copied from selected for “no college” rather than “Republican” but, although correlation isn’t perfect, we can use it as a proxy here.)
White men with no college voted for Moore over Jones, 79% to 19%.
That’s right. Uneducated white Southern Men preferred the child molester over the Democrat by more than a 4-to-1 margin. Even among uneducated white women the margin was almost 3-to-1.
I caught some of that interview on Lawrence O’Donnell a night or two ago.
This sounds like it has the makings of another Penn State.
I was (mildly) surprised when Jordan kept his seat in 2018. He had already made so many horrible statements and lies that I did not expect his constituency to continue to support him. Where I live is bad enough (politically) that I am really glad I do not live there.
RioRico
February 17, 2020, 5:21am
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He was the shithead they knew, not the new devil on the block. It’s like partners staying in an abusive relationship. The next one may be even worse, so cherish the known turd.
From some of the photos of Jim Jordan , I can’t even distinguish him from this guy .
E-DUB
February 17, 2020, 11:39pm
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Is that Bevis or, never mind.
