Rep. Jim Jordan’s communications with Trump

Rep. Jim Jordan’s communications with Trump
Then-President Trump and his allies undertook a feverish campaign to lobby members of Congress to object to the certification of the electoral vote based on bogus claims of election fraud, including a briefing with House members on Dec. 21, 2020. Among the 10 members was Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), now the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee — and recently a contender for House speaker.

Records uncovered by the House Select January 6 Committee indicate that Jordan’s communications with Trump continued right up to Jan. 6, including at least two phone calls. Jordan defied a subpoena from the committee, refusing to testify or turn over documents, and the substance of his phone conversations with Trump on Jan. 6 remains unknown.

As with Jackson, the committee ran into roadblocks, and the final report suggests that the Department of Justice might be more successful in getting to the bottom of Jordan’s role. Jordan, the report said, “appears to have had materially relevant communications with Donald Trump and others in the White House.”
“I think there’s no question that he has — that Jim Jordan has something to hid, probably a lot to hide,” Cheney told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in early December. “If you could go back and look at the phone records as well as what he’s said himself about his discussions and his conversations with Donald Trump, there’s a significant role he played in the lead-up to that. He was clearly one of the masterminds in terms of helping facilitate Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.”