Who would have thought that a four-time state wrestling champion from Ohio would one day be pinning progressives to the proverbial mat?

Published in The Epoch Times, 3/21/24

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Who would have thought that a four-time state wrestling champion
from Ohio would one day be pinning progressives to the proverbial
mat?
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has that same kind of Trumpian aura where
you feel like he’s always on his way to tackle something very
important, but has stopped momentarily to snatch his country from
the path of an oncoming train.
The author of “Do What You Said You Would Do: Fighting for Freedom
in the Swamp,” Mr. Jordan first made a name for himself opposing
Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act), a position he’s never
wavered from.
Later, Mr. Jordan was instrumental in calling for the release of all
documents related to the Mueller investigation, eventually coming to
the conclusion that “Despite the Special Counsel’s findings, it seems
nothing will stop Democrats in Congress from trying to get [President
Trump] at all costs.”
Since then, Mr. Jordan has become a champion of the people and a
human bullhorn for mainstream America. Let’s look at some of his
highlights:
The Masks and the Mandates
In April 2021, when many Americans still felt it was safer to sacrifice
an Instacart shopper than risk their own lives at the store, Mr. Jordan
was holding Dr. Anthony Fauci’s feet to the fire on masks and public
gatherings. In an exchange that will live in infamy, Mr. Jordan
demanded, “When do Americans get their freedom back?”
And while another great patriot, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), takes the top
spot for challenging the Dr. Fauci narrative on the origins of the virus,
even being the first to call for his resignation, over a million people
couldn’t stop watching Mr. Jordan unloading on Dr. Fauci over gain-offunction research and that cryptic lab in Wuhan.
The Truth About the Jan. 6 Committee
Was it any surprise that Mr. Jordan refused to cooperate with the
House Jan. 6 Committee investigating the events of that day? He
denounced it as a “partisan witch hunt” and accused Democrats of
using the committee as “a partisan cudgel against their political
adversaries.”
How Big Tech Colluded to Censor
Americans
In February 2023, as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Mr.
Jordan subpoenaed Big Tech CEOs—the “first step in holding Big Tech
accountable”—for their companies’ records on alleged collusion with
the Biden administration to “suppress free speech.” Alphabet,
Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft were all called to account.
By June 2023, the committee—along with the Select Subcommittee on
the Weaponization of the Federal Government—had produced an
interim staff report to officially document how and why American
voices were being censored.
At the heart of the investigation was the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—described as an upstart
agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Without
Mr. Jordan’s hard-hitting investigation, Americans would have never
heard of the agency that had become the “nerve center of the federal
government’s domestic surveillance and censorship operations on
social media.” The investigation is ongoing.
When the DOJ Treated Parents as
Domestic Terrorists
And who can forget Mr. Jordan blasting the Justice Department and
calling out Attorney General Merrick Garland for labeling parents
“domestic terrorists”? In 2021, parents protested at school board
meetings over mask and vaccine mandates, curfew orders, and other
restrictions implemented during the pandemic.
In his opening comments before questioning AG Garland, Mr. Jordan
outlined how the National School Boards Association (NSBA) wrote a
letter to President Joe Biden asking him to “use the Patriot Act to go
after moms and dads.” Among other things, he exposed how just days
later, the head of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division was having
conversations with the Justice Department on how to implement that
request, which hadn’t even yet been forwarded from the attorney
general. Thanks to Mr. Jordan, parents now knew what was happening
behind the scenes.
How and Why Banks Are Targeting
Conservatives
Last August we heard the first reports that Mr. Jordan had
subpoenaed Citibank “amid a wider probe into whether multiple
banks shared data with the U.S. government” in order to prosecute
individuals involved in the breach at the U.S. Capitol.
By January 2024, Mr. Jordan’s House Judiciary was introducing
Americans to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a
bureau of the Treasury Department that was instructing banks to
filter transactions using “suggested search terms” such as “Trump”
and “MAGA.” They were also told to be on the lookout for merchant
category codes (MCC) for stores such as “Dick’s Sporting Goods” and
“Bass Pro Shops” that might reflect “potential active shooters.”
Mr. Jordan detailed how FinCEN warned of “extremism indicators”
that included “the purchase of books (including religious texts) and
subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.” He wrote
that “FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the
private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the
basis of protected political and religious expression.”
Just this month, the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the
Federal Government held a hearing to examine how “Big Government
has colluded with Big Banks to surveil Americans’ private financial
data.” During it, Mr. Jordan warned us that he expects de-banking
measures—similar to what happened in Canada—will happen here. In
Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government used emergency
powers to freeze the bank accounts of people protesting COVID-19
mandates. More than 1.5 million people watched the hearing
exchange, which included Dr. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian
psychologist and commentator widely embraced by conservatives.
Impeachment and Hunter Biden
As chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Jordan has been a
leading voice in the impeachment investigation of President Biden,
assisting Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who is chair of the House
Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Mr. Jordan has also accused the Department of Justice of shielding the
president’s son, Hunter Biden, from investigation. That investigation is
also ongoing.
Fani Willis Motives and Alleged Misuse of
Funds
And then there’s Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. As The Epoch
Times reported, Ms. Willis was communicating with both Vice
President Kamala Harris and the Democrat-led House Jan. 6
Committee immediately before she filed charges against President
Trump.
So it’s probably no surprise that Mr. Jordan’s committee is finding
evidence that allegedly “Ms. Willis’s politicized prosecution [of Donald
Trump], including the decision to convene a special purpose grand
jury, was aided by partisan Democrats in Washington, D.C.” Their
findings came after a whistleblower alerted them that her office was
allegedly misusing federal grant funds.
While Ms. Willis may have succeeded in getting a grand jury to issue
election interference indictments against Mr. Trump and 18 others, it’s
clear that this isn’t Mr. Jordan’s first chess game. The House Judiciary
Committee is giving Ms. Willis an ultimatum to cooperate with his
investigation or potentially face contempt charges.
Biden’s Stash of Classified Documents
Then there’s that little matter of classified documents found in
President Biden’s home and office. Former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur
was handpicked by AG Garland to oversee that fiasco.
Mr. Hur’s findings confirmed that the president had “retained and
shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen,”
including military and foreign policy, some of it concerning
Afghanistan. Strangely, Mr. Hur concluded that criminal charges
weren’t warranted because a potential jury would likely find
President Biden to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with
a poor memory.”
Enter Mr. Jordan. One of the highlights of the House Judiciary grilling
of special counsel Hur was when Mr. Jordan asked him, “Why did Joe
Biden, in your words, willfully retain and disclose classified
materials?” He continued to boil down the potential answer for all of
us: pride and money. Citing Mr. Hur’s report, Mr. Jordan masterfully
illustrates that the president was sharing classified information with
his ghostwriter for his $8 million book deal.
I can’t even imagine who would have been better for America at this
point in our history than Mr. Jordan, or where we would be without
him. Rep. Jim Jordan has earned his place as a champion of the people.