Gym Jordan Can't Blame Hunter Biden For The OSU Sexual Molestation Scandal That Just Opened Up Again

Expect Jordan To Now Ramp Up Mayorkas Impeachment Bullshit To Take The Spotlight Off Himself

This week many people felt a surge of schadenfreude when the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for over 100 men to pursue law suits against Ohio State University. One of the folks who felt that sense of schadenfreude was Charlies Pierce and on Monday he shared that with his readers at Esquire. Maybe besides than Wolverines fans no one has much of anything against Ohio State... other than the school’s connection to demented former wrestling coach Gym Jordan, who Pierce referred to as a “bloviating nuisance.” I wish that was the extent of it, but Jordan is more than just a nuisance.

OSU tried running out the statute of limitations clock and the Supreme Court said screw that. “This,” wrote Pierce, “means that Ohio State, having already paid out $40 million to Strauss' victims, will now face another considerable number of plaintiffs going back years. It also means that Jordan, who was an assistant wrestling coach at the time, and who, several former OSU athletes have said, was aware of Strauss' crimes, will be answering motions about sexual abuse while trying to make the case that Hunter Biden's junk was a threat to democracy an the rule of law. (Jordan's defense was, and remains, the Sergeant Schultz defense. He knew noth-INK!) This should be quite amusing.” Welcome to depositionland.

177 wrestlers say they were sexually abused by Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005. Many of the men testified that Jordan allowed the assaults. CNN reported, for example, that “Tito Vazquez says he still remembers the day three decades ago when, as a wrestler at Ohio State University, the doctor he’d gone to see about a bloody nose insisted on examining his genitals. He also recalls how one of his coaches dismissed his immediate complaint. ‘I have nothing to do with this,’ Vazquez quoted the assistant coach saying, as he effectively ended the conversation and went on with wrestling practice. That coach, Vazquez says, was Jim Jordan… perhaps best known for his pugnacious defense of President Donald Trump during the recent impeachment proceedings.”

CNN spoke with 6 former wrestlers who said that they were present when Jordan heard or responded to sexual misconduct complaints about Stauss. “Eight others say Strauss’ inappropriate behavior was an open secret in the athletic department and that Jordan, among others, must have known about it… Since the scandal emerged, Jordan has emphatically denied that he knew anything about Strauss’ abuse during his own years working at OSU, between 1987 and 1995. ‘Congressman Jordan never saw any abuse, never heard about any abuse, and never had any abuse reported to him during his time as a coach at Ohio State,’ his congressional office said in 2018.” Everyone— except the voters in central Ohio counties like Delaware, Richland, Allen, Union and Marion— knows he’s lying. He beat Democrat Tamie Wilson 200,773 (69.2%) to 89,383 (30.85). She’s going to try again and is using the re-opening of the case against him already. This is from the e-mail she sent to her supporters they before yesterday:

Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Ohio State University’s attempts to dismiss claims of sexual abuse brought by dozens of victims against an OSU athletic department doctor.

This is a big win for justice and accountability, and here’s why:

At the center of this case is my opponent, Rep. Jim Jordan, and his actions as assistant coach of the wrestling team.

While serving as an assistant wrestling coach at OSU, Jim Jordan turned a blind eye to reports of sexual misconduct by the team's doctor, Richard Strauss. Under Jordan’s protection, Strauss’ abuse was allowed to carry on unimpeded. Strauss ultimately victimized hundreds of students; some of them have come forward as members of Jordan’s wrestling team— many of whom he recruited by promising these young men’s parents he would “take care of them.”

Despite Jordan’s stonewalling, dozens of survivors have come forward with their stories and have sworn under oath that they told Jordan about the abuse. The survivors described Jordan responding dismissively to their reports and then taking no action.

With this result, we hope that Jim Jordan will finally be held accountable for his role in the scheme of abuse that ruined so many young lives for so long.

Jim Jordan has no business serving in Congress. The voters of my district deserve to have someone representing them that they can trust. Someone with a record of values, morals, and leadership.

Jordan hired Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, to aggressively deny his culpability in the scandal and to try to rehabilitate his tattered image. He’s paid them over $100,000 for their services.

Multiple former OSU athletes told CNN they found Jordan’s denials puzzling, because they say they distinctly remember him responding to complaints about Strauss.

One former wrestler, Dan Ritchie, said he remembers a teammate complained about Strauss and that Jordan said, “If he ever tried that with me I’d snap his neck like a stick of dry balsa wood.”

Ritchie said Strauss’ behavior was an ongoing, uncomfortable joke among athletes.

He said Strauss tried to “groom” students to accept the inappropriate nature of the examinations, which became increasingly abusive over time. Ritchie said he ultimately quit the team because of Strauss’ behavior.

“When we heard Jim say he wasn’t aware, everyone just thought, ‘Are you kidding?’” Ritchie said. “I like Jimmy, but I think he took the wrong stance off the get go and now he can’t backtrack.”

Another former wrestler, Mike Flusche, told CNN that he also remembers Jordan responding to a complaint about Strauss by saying he would break the doctor’s neck if he ever tried something similar on him.

“It’s weird to play back something in your mind that you remember and have someone say it’s not true,” Flusche said.

Dunyasha Yetts said he first raised concerns about Strauss with Jordan and the head coach of the team at the time, Russ Hellickson, in 1992, after Yetts transferred to wrestle for OSU from Purdue University. He said he was shocked when Strauss groped him during his initial physical exam. According to Yetts, he told both coaches he was uncomfortable. “I even told them that if I had to go through this again, I’m not staying here,” Yetts told CNN.

In January 1993, Yetts said, he went to Strauss after he injured his thumb in practice. During the examination, the doctor tried to remove his wrestling shorts.

“I said, ‘Doc, it’s my damn thumb.’ So I literally got up off the table, turned around and busted through the door,” Yetts said.

Yetts said he came out and complained to Jordan and other wrestlers about what happened. He said Jordan responded by saying something like, “If he tried that on me, I would kill him.”

Two former wrestlers, Shawn Dailey and Mike Glane, told CNN they remember witnessing Yetts complain about Strauss’ behavior immediately after the incident, in the presence of Jordan.

…Former OSU wrestler Adam DiSabato told Ohio state legislators in February that Jordan called him in 2018 and asked him to contradict statements by his brother, who had publicly alleged Jordan knew about Strauss’ abuse when he worked for the university.

“Jim Jordan called me crying, crying. Groveling. On the 4th of July, begging me to go against my brother. Begging me. Crying for a half hour. That’s the kind of cover-ups that’s going on there,” DiSabato told legislators.