Rep. Jim Jordan selected to serve on committee to probe the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S Capitol

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Even though he opposed its formation, Champaign County Republican Rep. Jim Jordan will serve on a select House of Representatives committee to probe the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.

Jordan – the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee – reacted to news that House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy had named him to the commission by posting a Twitter video that compiled footage of Democrats objecting to the results of prior elections on the House of Representatives floor, and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton discussing having the election stolen from her.

In a subsequent Newsmax interview, Jordan claimed the committee investigation will be “impeachment round three,” and said he plans to focus on the truth and facts.

“I don’t frankly blame the Democrats for doing this, because what else they got”” he asked.

In addition to Jordan, numerous published reports said McCarthy plans to name Illinois’ Rodney Davis, Indiana’s Jim Banks, North Dakota’s Kelly Armstrong and Texas’ Troy Nehls to the commission that House Democrats created to “investigate and report upon the facts and causes of the attack,” as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it on the House of Representatives floor.

“It will report on conclusions and recommendations for preventing any future assault, and it will find the truth, which clearly the Republicans fear,” said Pelosi.

McCarthy and other Republicans said that Democrats didn’t “negotiate in good faith” on how such a commission would be formed, argued that a congressional probe could undermine ongoing prosecutions of the crimes committed that day, and said they believed it would ignore political violence committed by those on the left. Just two Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for its creation: Wyoming’s Liz Cheney and Illinois’ Adam Kinzinger.

Earlier this month, Pelosi appointed Cheney to serve on the 13-member committee, which will be chaired by Homeland Security Committee chair Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. The other Democratic appointees were California’s Zoe Lofgren, Pete Aguilar and Adam Schiff, Maryland’s Jamie Raskin, Virginia’s Elaine Luria, and Florida’s Stephanie Murphy. Legislation that established the panel says that Pelosi will need to approve McCarthy’s picks before they can join.

As Trump urged his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol on the day of the riot, Jordan pressed Trump’s case in the U.S. House of Representatives. He led a group of Republican Congress members who objected to counting Arizona’s electoral votes and wanted to object to counting the electoral votes in six states the Trump campaign disputed, even though courts throughout the country had rejected their legal challenges as baseless.

“President Trump got 11 million more votes than he did in 2016, and House Republicans won 27 of 27 toss-up races,” Jordan said on the House of Representatives floor. “But somehow the guy who never left his house wins the election? Eighty million Americans, 80 million of our fellow citizens, Republicans and Democrats, have doubts about this election; and 60 million people, 60 million Americans think it was stolen.”

In February remarks before CPAC, Jordan noted that several Democrats raised objections to the vote count after Trump was elected in 2016 and accused them of holding Republicans to a different standard.

“The reason the Democrats are so out to cancel us is because they don’t like the fact that we tell the truth about them,” said Jordan. “They like the fact that they can engage in this hypocrisy, in this double standard. And who do they want to cancel most? Yeah, the guy who did what he said when he was President of the United States, right? They want to cancel the guy.”

A Democrat who has filed paperwork to run against Jordan in 2022, Lima warehouse manager Jeff Sites, issued a press statement that called on Pelosi to block Jordan and any other election objector from serving on the select committee. Given Jordan’s ties to Trump, he contended that Jordan could be called as a witness before the commission.

“Our country and the police officers who put their lives on the line on January 6th deserve justice,” Sites statement continued. “Does anyone really believe the Sedition Caucus is serious about getting it for them?”

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