Yes, you read that right. He said it was the January 6th Committee that was a “complete assault on American liberty” not the Insurrection of January 6th to overturn a legal election and install the orange freakshow in the White House for another term.
Up is down, black is white.
And Beavis doesn’t seem to recall whether he spoke with Trump before, during or after the event. Weird. You’d think it would be something that would stick in your memory.
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.
The statement from Jordan, a staunch Trump ally and a potential witness in the House’s investigation of the attack, came during a Rules Committee meeting on whether to hold former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon in contempt for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
“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.”
Asked about his August comment to Politico, Jordan told McGovern that he “didn’t speak to the president during the attack.”
Jordan also said he had never spoken with Trump about a coordinated effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. I have no idea what that is. Of course not,” Jordan said.
For a Trump Republican he sure is a terrible liar. Not that it matters.
By the way, Butthead showed up too and tried to challenge Law Professor Jamie Raskin on the Constitution. It didn’t go well: