Jim Jordan is a congressman from Ohio. He represents the most backwater inbred collection of racist, homophobic asshats imaginable.

Jim Jordan is a tea party darling who holds all the usual disgusting positions. He also, of course, is running interference for Daddy on the reg.

He's also a former wresting coach. At least 5 people say he had direct knowledge of another coach raping kids, and did absolutely nothing.

This is the likely next speaker of the house! He's already claiming everyone is lying and formulating a conspiracy theory about "suspicious timing."

Ladies and gentlemen, the GOP. Not a single one of them has spoken out against this dude.

Child rape is now one of the major planks of republican orthodoxy. Its cutting taxes, whining about stuff, trying to annoy liberals and child torture/rape. They are the 4 pillars of republicanism. Obviously racism is the foundation that these 4 pillars stand on.

Dead girl/live boy are no longer disqualifications.

Penn State cultists still defend Paterno. It should be no surprise that this doesn't matter.

Yeah, mostly this. With Paterno, the cult latched on to the fact that he told someone higher up about it. I wonder what straw Jordan apologists are going to grasp.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1015369813902987264

I assume it's a major law firm, top 10-40, with like 10 offices and 1k+ lawyers, none of whom overlap on the projects. Listening to music and drinking a beer, so not going to find out which one. This is like saying Ernst & Young Toledo office is conflicted in an audit because the Phoenix office once auited a compeitor.

"Conversations in a locker room are different"

So he did know about it

Lying piece of ****

Good thing Al Franken's resignation preserved norms in this country. Otherwise we'd have the presumptive republican speaker all over television saying that reports of sexual abuse were just locker room talk

looooooolll it took all of two days to go from "they're all lying" to "locker room talk"

Perkins Coie

So, yeah, you're right.

You have got to be ****ing kidding me

guess he's not important enough for a russian bot swarm. 100% negative responses 0 oddly worded support posts from "mike of america" or whatever.

Can’t report sexual abuse if you hear about it in the locker room. Laws don’t apply to locker room talk, it’s like The Purge in there.

Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State

A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler said Saturday that he believes Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) knew about inappropriate behavior that allegedly took place in the school’s athletic department three decades ago, as two more former team members came to Jordan’s defense.

I guess this is a step in the right direction, two speakers ago the GOP had an actual child molester in charge.

ruh roh

Even the Russians have some standards when it comes to children?

no, did you not hear about the banning of disabled child adoptions?

wow, the replies on this are really something

(in case anyone ITT makes the same mistake, it is a fake tweet which is a joke)

This **** right here

And there's his cover

It doesn't really surprise me that his former assistants would come to his defense. Wrestling at that level is a pretty small community.

Not that this absolves Jim Jordan, but I think the bolded is wrong. I finally got around to reading the story. USA Today and CBS say it was a team doctor groping athletes and watching them in the showers and locker room.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard...men-for-years/
Apparently an administrator and another doctor ignored the complaints:
Jim Jordan was an assistant coach. I suppose it's possible that an asst coach didn't know, because the athletes might only complain to the head coach. But given the WaPo article ScreaminAsian posted, he almost definitely knew.
This isn't on the same level as JoePa's inaction toward Sandusky, but there's no defense for it and it ought to cost Jordan his political career.

A lawyer I follow tweeted that Jordan would have had a legal responsibility to report such incidents. He quoted the statute, but IANAL and I don't know if it was actually law at the time this stuff happened. This hasn't been mentioned in articles I've seen. Obviously he also had a moral responsibility.