This story will live on in the annals (in Jim Jordan’s case anals) of the House Of Representatives for many a decade to come. I can see the youngest, freshman congress member today, wizened and grey, televising from her flying car decades from now, “Yes, I remember it like it was yesterday. Jamie Raskin, always the intellect and quite the card, put it over on Jim Jordan, who can’t think analytically anymore than he can put on a damn suit coat. And Jordan lost it.” Jordan will lose it, just as soon as Tom Emmer or somebody explains to him how he set himself up for exactly this thing.
Here’s the backstory. Jordan gave Raskin an opportunity to do America a lot of good because Jordan wants to investigate Jack Smith. Raskin said, knock yourself out. Then he wrote the following letter to the oblivious Jim Jordan — whose only motivation to investigate Jack Smith is because he wants to harass him on Trump’s behalf. And Raskin’s fine with that part, because there are other parts that automatically come into play that Dum Dum Gym doesn’t know about.
Last week, I applauded your call for transparency about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into how President Trump knowingly retained hundreds of highly classified records at his Mar-a-Lago club and then defied subpoenas, obstructed law enforcement, actively hid evidence, and lied about his continuing retention of those records. I commended you for apparently joining us in demanding the full release of Mr. Smith’s report—paid for by American taxpayers—as well as all accompanying records which the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been desperately concealing.
I am now calling on you to accept Mr. Smith’s offer to testify at a public hearing so the American people can all hear directly from him Until now, Special Counsels leading investigations into a sitting or former president have always appeared before Congress to publicly answer questions about their investigations’ findings. That is not because both parties necessarily agreed with the Special Counsels’ conclusions, but because of the overwhelming public interest in understanding the substance, scope, and conclusions of their investigations.
Special Counsel John Durham testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee in June 2023. Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified publicly before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees in July 2019. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee in November 1998. And just last year, in March 2024, Special Counsel Robert Hur testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Smith has led not one but two significant investigations into criminal wrongdoing by President Trump. The first involved President Trump’s role leading a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 elections by promoting “bullshit” claims of election fraud, attempting to submit false slates of electors and to coerce Vice President Pence into accepting them, and, when all else failed, directing a violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol.
The second involved President Trump’s deliberate hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and his subsequent obstruction of justice to cover up his offense. To this day, DOJ is fighting to prevent the release of the Special Counsel’s full report regarding this criminal activity. I know you agree that the American people, whose tax dollars funded these investigations, have a compelling interest—indeed a right—in hearing directly from Mr. Smith about both investigations into the sitting President of the United States. Your letter to Mr. Smith and your statements over the past few years have leveled serious accusations against him and his team, claiming they engaged in “partisan and politically motivated prosecutions” and employed “distubing tactics” that “undermined the integrity of the criminal justice system.”
You have invited Mr. Smith to appear for a secret, closed-door transcribed interview to answer the Committee’s questions. But Mr. Smith has made clear that he is prepared to address those allegations publicly, and I can think of no reason to deny the American people the opportunity to hear his testimony, under oath and with questioning from Members of both parties, and to let all Americans judge for themselves the integrity of Mr. Smith’s investigations.
There is no reason his appearance should be in the shadows of a backroom and subject to the usual tiresome partisan tactics of leak-and-distort. I therefore call on you to accept Mr. Smith’s offer and schedule a public hearing of the full Committee at the earliest opportunity.
I, for one, can think of nothing more illuminating than Jack Smith doing a public hearing before the House on this topic. It’s wonderful. It’s a superb idea. And thank you Mr. Jordan for coming up with it. Mr. Raskin thanks you. He applauds you and commends you, in fact. That should be your first clue that you have phuqued up pyrotechnically and now things are going to get lively.
And especially when Mad King Donald gets wind of this, hoe boy, the thanking will stop, bigly and the screaming will start. So we can be sure of at least a couple of things in the week to come: All interest in persecuting Jack Smith will go into suspension mode indefinitely — or, maybe Jordan still doesn’t get it and he’ll go ahead, believing he’s going to please Trump and publicly take down Smith. This could get hilarious and fast.
and there you go!
Gym Jordan is out of his depth in a puddle.
Further proof.
(Note the accepted spelling of Gym, in honor of his only life achievement, in the scandal.)
annals, however, was spelled correctly for the context.