Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner argued online this week that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), rather than becoming Speaker of the House after the recent removal from that position of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), should be indicted.
In his commentary, Kirschner pointed both to the communications that Jordan is known to have had with then-President Trump in periods relevant to January 6 and the Ohioan’s later refusal to testify to the House committee that investigated the Capitol riot, which was led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and now former Wyoming GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney — the latter of whom has also recently been deriding the idea of Jordan becoming Speaker of the House.
“Jim Jordan is acting as an accessory after the fact to Donald Trump’s crimes,” Kirschner claimed. “Jim Jordan? Speaker of the House of Representatives? Jim Jordan ought to be a co-defendant, indicted alongside his deity, his political benefactor Donald Trump.”
Democrats in Congress have repeatedly pointed in recent months to Jordan’s refusal to comply with that House committee’s subpoena, which contrasts with the insistence from Jordan and other Republicans on subpoena compliance now that their party holds the House majority. Though the precise contours of some of the communications after the 2020 election between Jordan and Trump are, well, unclear, the Ohio Republican was an avid public supporter of conspiracy theories about that presidential race. “I don’t know how you can ever convince me that President Trump didn’t actually win this thing based on all the things you see,” Jordan stated in a 2020 Fox interview — pretty unequivocally staking his claim amid the debate.
“There was a handful of people, of which he was the leader, who knew what Donald Trump had planned,” Cheney recently said, referring to Jordan. “Now somebody needs to ask Jim Jordan, ‘Why didn’t you report to the Capitol Police what you knew Donald Trump had planned? You were in those meetings at the White House.’ If the Republicans decide that Jim Jordan should be the Speaker of the House — and by the way, I don’t think that’s going to happen. I think he’ll lose. But if they were to decide that, there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”
Jim Jordan thinks he should be Speaker of the House? Given the J6 committee’s findings, and his criminal defiance of a congressional subpoena to cover up the crimes of Donald Trump, a far more fitting title than “Speaker” is “indicted defendant.” Because #JusticeMatters pic.twitter.com/iyds9eRQeM
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) October 8, 2023
