{"id":28921,"date":"2023-10-06T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28921"},"modified":"2023-10-06T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:19:37","slug":"jim-jordan-should-not-be-speaker-he-should-be-a-co-defendant-in-trumps-attempted-coup-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/jim-jordan-should-not-be-speaker-he-should-be-a-co-defendant-in-trumps-attempted-coup-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan should not be Speaker, he should be a co-defendant in Trump\u2019s attempted coup case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jordan was a criminal co-conspirator in the coup<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>DEAN OBEIDALLAH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Wednesday, GOP Rep. Jim Jordan announced he\u2019s running for Speaker of the House. In reality, the only thing Jordan should be announcing is how he pleas in response to criminal charges for being part of Donald Trump\u2019s illegal effort to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s be very clear: No member of Congress was more involved in Trump\u2019s attempted coup than Jordan.<\/strong> We know that by the way of the House Jan 6 committee report which detailed Jordan\u2019s actions.  As the Jan 6 committee\u2019s final report bluntly states, Jordan was “a significant player<\/a> in President Trump’s efforts” to overturn the election.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For starters, the report details that Jordan \u201cspread lies about the election,\u201d such as when he travelled from his home state of Ohio to speak \u201cat a \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally in front of the Pennsylvania State capitol in Harrisburg, just days after the November election.\u201d Jordan also trafficked in election lies \u201cduring interviews with friendly media outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Jordan\u2019s actions went far beyond amplifying Trump\u2019s election lies. He was one of the key players in plotting to prevent Congress from certifying Biden\u2019s victory.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Jan 6 report explains, Jordan \u201cparticipated in numerous post-election meetings in which senior White House officials,<\/strong> Rudolph Giuliani, and others, discussed strategies for challenging the election, chief among them claims that the election had been tainted by fraud.\u201d (As Jordan knew full well, the election had not been \u201ctainted by fraud\u201d as every court<\/a> that considered Trump and his allies claims to overturn the results back up.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report also documents Jordan\u2019s leadership role in the effort to prevent the certification of Biden\u2019s victory.<\/strong> For example, the report explains that, \u201cOn January 2, 2021, Representative Jordan led a conference call<\/strong> in which he, President Trump, and other Members of Congress discussed strategies for delaying the January 6th joint session.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that call, they talked not only strategy for the Jan 6 certification process but also stunningly \u201cdiscussed issuing social media posts encouraging President Trump\u2019s supporters to \u201cmarch to the Capitol\u201d on the 6th.<\/strong>  In other words, Jordan helped with encouraging people to head to the Capitol on Jan 6 that led to the attack on the very chamber he now wants to lead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that conference call, Jordan spoke<\/a> to Trump for 18 minutes in a one on one conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Jordan was not close to being done in his efforts to block the peaceful transfer of power. The Jan 6 committee report further details, on Jan 5, \u201cJordan texted Mark Meadows [Trump\u2019s then chief of staff], passing along advice that Vice President Pence should \u201ccall out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.\u201d  <\/strong>Yes, Jordan was specifically giving advice on how Pence should illegally prevent Congress from certifying Biden\u2019s win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan was so integral to Trump\u2019s plan that Trump praised him to DOJ officials just a week before the Jan 6 attack. As the report notes, during a December 27, 2020, phone call between Trump and Acting Attorney General Rosen –as Trump was trying to enlist DOJ\u2019s efforts in his coup\u2014he praised Jordan as a \u201cfighter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jan 6 committee report goes on to document many more interactions between Jordan and Trump in the service of Trump\u2019s effort to overturn the 2020 election, including speaking<\/a> to Trump at least twice on Jan 6 via phone. However, as the report highlights–Jordan made \u201cinconsistent public statements about how many times they spoke and what they discussed\u201d on Jan 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the report further tells us about Jordan, he \u201chad materially relevant communications with Donald Trump or others in the White House\u201d which is why the bipartisan committee subpoenaed him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Jordan refused<\/a> to comply with the committee\u2019s subpoena seeking his testimony.  Given the committee was winding down in December with the new GOP controlled House taking control come Jan 3, the most the committee could do was refer<\/a> Jordan–and other Republicans who did the same like Kevin McCarty–to the House Ethics committee. As the report noted<\/a>, if Jordan and others who ignored the subpoenas are  \u201cleft unpunished,\u201d it \u201cundermines Congress\u2019s longstanding power to investigate in support of its lawmaking authority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of punishing Jordan, however, the House GOP leadership elevated him in January to chair of the Judiciary Committee. And now the House GOP may reward Jordan for his efforts as part of Trump\u2019s coup attempt–and ignoring a congressional subpoena–by elected him as Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, Jordan should be charged as co-conspirator with Trump in the attempted coup case in Washington, D.C, where Trump is facing  four felonies<\/a>.  In that case, Trump is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evidence is undisputed that Jordan was working with Trump to achieve his goal of preventing the certification of Biden\u2019s victory by Congress on Jan 6 for which Trump is now charged with crimes. And Jordan took numerous overt acts in furtherance of that illegal goal, which is the very definition<\/a> of being a criminal co-conspirator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, none of this matters to today\u2019s MAGA GOP given their overwhelming support for Trump despite his attempted coup, inciting of the Jan 6 attack, refusal to act for three hours as his supporters on Jan 6 brutally beat police officers and threatened to kill elected officials including his own vice president and his pledge to pardon the Jan 6 terrorists. We can expect MAGA to elect Jordan as Speaker to reward him for his efforts in the service of Trump\u2019s attempted coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As President Biden warned<\/a> last week in his vitally important speech on protecting our nation: \u201cThere is something dangerous happening in America now. There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy: the MAGA Movement.\u201d<\/strong> He added, \u201cTheir extreme agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American democracy as we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President is 100% correct.  That is why we must loudly call out Jordan\u2014as well as Trump\u2019s wrongdoing and crimes. We do so not in an effort to persuade MAGA, but to reach our fellow Americans who believe in safeguarding our democratic Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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