Coup Plotter ‘Gym’ Jordan Caught In A Lie About His Phone Call With Donald Trump On Jan. 6

Rep. “Gym” Jordan (R-Ohio) was invited to testify before the January 6 Committee because he is a fact witness to conversations he had with President Trump on January 6, and he is believed to be among the coup plotters to overturn the election results. “The committee also is seeking details of Mr. Jordan’s contacts with Mr. Trump’s legal team and others from the White House who they say met in a “war room” in the Willard Hotel near the White House in the days leading up to Jan. 6.” House Jan. 6 panel sets sights on Jim Jordan in expanding probe of Trump-allied lawmakers.

Jordan also peddled a legal argument [the John Eastman “Coup Memo”] that the vice president has the authority to intervene in the election certification process, forwarding a text on the theory to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows the day before the attack. He also provided aid and comfort to the MAGA/QAnon violent insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol on January 6, as did 147 Republican lawmakers who still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack.

“Gym” Jordan has declined to testify to the January 6 Committee – obstruction of Congress (because he will likely have to take the Fifth as a co-conspirator).

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told Rep. “Gym” Jordan during the Jan. 6 riot “Get away from me, you f—ing did this,” as the lawmakers were being escorted away from the protesters who had stormed the Capitol building. Cheney confirms she told Jim Jordan on Jan. 6 ‘Get away from me. You f—ing did this’:

Cheney confirmed the interaction during an interview with The New York Times’s Michael Barbaro for “The Daily” podcast that was published on Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the deadly attack. Asked by Barbaro if the confrontation, first reported in the book “I Alone Can Fix It,” was true, Cheney said “yeah,” before detailing her thoughts during the expletive-ridden interaction.

“I was in the aisle, on the aisle and he [Jordan] came over to me, you know, and basically said, we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. And, you know, I had watched for the months since the election what was going on and the lies that have been told to people,” Cheney told Barbaro.

“And, you know, it was both that I, you know, certainly didn’t need his help, and secondly, I thought clearly that the lie that they had been spreading and telling people had absolutely contributed to what we were living through at that moment,” she added.

“Gym” Jordan was asked about his phone conversations with Donald Trump on Jan. 6 by the House Rules Committee, and he hemmed and hawed and pretended that he could not recall how many times he talked to Trump, or when. Rep. Jim Jordan tells House panel he can’t recall how many times he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6:

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday struggled to answer questions about his communications with then-President Donald Trump during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, telling a House panel that he doesn’t recall the number of times he spoke with Trump that day.

“Of course I talked to the president,” Jordan told members of the Rules Committee on Wednesday, in response to questioning from the panel’s chairman, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.). “I talked to him that day. I’ve been clear about that. I don’t recall the number of times, but it’s not about me. I know you want to make it about that.”

Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), one of the two Republicans whom House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has appointed to the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, has previously suggested that Jordan could be summoned as a material witness as the panel’s investigation proceeds.

“He’s somebody who was involved in a number of meetings in the lead-up to what happened on January 6th, involved in planning for January 6th, certainly for the objections that day as he said publicly, so he may well be a material witness,” Cheney said in July during an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

In the months since the attack, Jordan has given conflicting answers as to his communications with Trump that day.

In a July interview with Spectrum News, the GOP lawmaker said he was not certain exactly when on Jan. 6 he spoke with Trump.

“I spoke with him that day, after?” Jordan said during the interview. “I think after. I don’t know if I spoke with him in the morning or not. I just don’t know. … I don’t know when those conversations happened.”

Then, in an August interview with Politico, Jordan confirmed for the first time that he spoke with Trump “more than once” on Jan. 6.

He told the news outlet that he didn’t recall the times the conversations took place but that he was “sure” one of the calls took place in the safe room on the Capitol complex to which lawmakers were evacuated during the attack, “because we were in that room forever.”

During Wednesday’s hearing, Jordan told McGovern that he remembered speaking with Trump “after the attack happened and we were moved to the chamber,” an apparent reference to the safe room. “I may have talked to him before; I don’t know,” Jordan added.

Later in the hearing, McGovern again pressed Jordan on whether he had spoken to Trump “before, during or after” the attack on the Capitol.

“I talked to the president after the attack,” Jordan replied.

“So, not before or during,” McGovern said.

“Right,” Jordan responded. “And I’ve been clear about that.” [Clear as mud.]

Asked about his August comment to Politico, Jordan told McGovern that he “didn’t speak to the president during the attack.” [So he didn’t ask Trump to call off his mob as others did?]

Jordan also said he had never spoken with Trump about a coordinated effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. [What about the other coup plotters at the Willard Hotel?]

The January 6 Committe has since subpoenaed phone records from over a hundred individuals, and obtained the White House phone logs from the National Archives.

“Gym” Jordan be lying (you’re shocked, I’m sure.)

RawStory reports, White House call log ‘directly contradicts’ Jim Jordan’s claims to Rules Committee:

On Friday’s edition of CNN’s “The Lead,” correspondent Ryan Nobles reported on how White House records turned over to Congress contradict claims Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) made about his contact with former President Donald Trump on January 6.

“Give us the timeline,” said anchor Jake Tapper. “When did this call take place? What does it tell us?”

“According to White House call records that have been obtained by the January 6th committee, and have been reviewed by two different sources that spoke to CNN, there was a phone call placed by the White House, by President Trump to Jim Jordan on the morning of January 6th,” said Nobles. “That call lasted for ten minutes. This is significant information and it is the first time that it has been revealed, and it comes after Jim Jordan has been incredibly evasive as to the communication he’s had with the former president on January 6th.”

“Almost every time he’s been asked a question about his communication with Donald Trump, he’s given a different answer, including today when he told CNN that he only remembers talking to the former president as he left the House floor on January 6th,” continued Nobles. “That’s something he’s never said before. He also told the House Rules Committee at one point that he thought the only time he spoke to the former president was after the attack. That directly contradicts what we’re learning, and also what he said today. And there are members of the Rules Committee making note of that.”

Nobles then explained what relevance this might have to the House Select Committee.

“The January 6th committee is very interested in what Jim Jordan was talking about when he talked to the former president,” added Nobles. “Of course, Jordan, one of the leading Republicans, was attempting to get in the way of the certification of the election results that day. He voted to object to the election results. The committee is trying to figure out a way to get information from these Republican members of Congress that they believe played at least some sort of a role in the violence that took place on January 6th.“

RawStory further reports, ‘Squirrelly’ Jim Jordan’s Trump phone call ‘is a big piece’ of the Capitol riot evidence: former prosecutor:

Appearing on CNN Saturday morning, former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman suggested the content of the newly revealed 10-minute phone conversation Rep. “Gym” Jordan (R-OH) had with former president Donald Trump would go a long way to exposing any White House connection to the Jan 6th Capitol riot.

Speaking with host Amara Walker, the former prosecutor labeled the Ohio Republican as “squirrelly” with his evasive answers about the morning call that he previously claimed never happened.

Asked by the CNN host if the GOP lawmaker should be subpoenaed, Litman said it probably would be fruitless because Jordan and Trump are likely engaged in a “conspiracy of silence.”

“We know that Congressman Jim Jordan spoke with President Trump for ten minutes,” host Walker prompted. “That afternoon he went to object to the certification of Biden’s Electoral College win. Do you think a subpoena will be enough for Jordan to speak to the committee and reveal what was said on that call?”

“Short answer is no,” the attorney replied. “And by the way, you’re right. just for the listeners, the records the committee have just say how long the call was, they don’t have the context. The people who could give that? Jim Jordan and Donald Trump but they both can have confidence that there will be a conspiracy of silence.“

“But it’s significant,” he continued. “Because he’s been all over the lot and very squirrely about it with one exception. He said categorically, ‘I never talked to him in the morning.’ So this puts the lie to it. As you say that really matters because it is in advance of the whole riot and rally that Trump undertook.”

“So it is a big piece of evidence,” he elaborated. ” A prosecutor’s head would be going off like crazy given all the squirreliness like before, but I don’t think a subpoena will work against Jordan unless and until they go to court for it.”

Subpoena his lying ass this week. No more congressional collegiality for coup plotter co-conspirators.