WaPo: Jim Jordan used to torment GOP leaders. Now he’s leading them in defending Trump.
It’s easy to picture Jim Jordan in a locker room, standing jacketless on a cooler or folding chair, rolling up his sleeves and rallying the troops before a crucial showdown. The square-jawed Ohio congressman used to coach wrestling and understands that conflict — even in government proceedings — is a matter of physics: leverage, pressure, aggression, submission. For years, Jordan led a band of misfit conservatives who grappled not so much with Democrats, but Republicans: helping drive two GOP speakers of the House out of town, killing bills that didn’t pass purity tests, shutting down the government. Jordan became such a despised member of his conference that some of his colleagues began suggesting to party leaders that they redistrict him out of his seat. But, in a recent meeting in the basement of the Capitol, on the eve of the first hearings of the impeachment inquiry, Jordan spoke to his Republican colleagues like a coach trying to spark the will to win. … “There has been no greater supporter of President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda or greater defender from these left-wing attacks than Jim Jordan,” said David Bossie, a Trump ally and longtime acquaintance of Jordan’s. “And the president recognizes fighters when he sees one.” Read the rest of the article… Follow David Bossie on Twitter Read more from David Bossie on Fox News |