Posted on 07/07/2018 6:43:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jim Jordan has been one of the most effective investigators in pursuing the cabal that weaponized the FBI and intelligence agencies to fight the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump. Rather than answer him with facts and documents, the left is out to destroy him, which tells anyone paying attention that he is on to something.
This campaign began to tar him with scandal, no matter how far-fetched. George Rasley explains at Conservative HQ:
NBC News published an article on Tuesday, quoting Mike DiSabato and Dunyasha Yetts, two former Ohio State University wrestlers, claiming that when Jim Jordan worked as assistant wrestling coach at OSU, he ignored sexual abuse carried out by a university physician named Richard Strauss. ...
Jordan, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion, denied back in April that he knew about Strauss's alleged activities. But Yetts told NBC News that Jordan was either a "liar" or taking part in a cover-up of the abuse. DiSabato called Jordan a "coward."
Jordan, a leading House conservative and candidate for Speaker, has vehemently denied the allegations, saying that he was never told of sexual abuse against athletes during his stint at OSU, which stretched from 1986 to 1994. He said he would have taken action had he known about any abuse by Strauss, who killed himself in 2005. ...
And interestingly enough, looking through the articles about the allegations you can't find any mention of head coach Russ Hellickson's name, who would have been the logical person to whom allegations of abuse should have been reported, if they occurred.
Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller checked out the bona fides of the two accusers and found ample reason to doubt their integrity:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Further tainting the charges is the involvement of Perkins Coie, which, as Paul Mirengoff of Powerline points out, is:
... the Seattle-based operation that served as the go-between between Hillary Clinton's campaign and Fusion/GPS, as they colluded with Russians to put together the phony dossier for use against Donald Trump.
Bttt
Any collegiate wrestler at a Division I school who claims he was molested by a team doctor is either making the story up, or was involved in a consensual homosexual relationship with the doctor.
This is all a concocted stretch.
This should be a huge problem for OSU. Their “independent investigators” leaked hearsay and unprovable information from this investigation for the sole purposes of harming Rep. Jim Jordan. I hope Jordan sues Ohio State for every dime the school controls including its multi billion dollar endowment.
Perkins Coie should have been fired the day of the first media report. This is on OSU.
I was thinking much the same, that the doctor must have been some kind of tough customer to molest collegiate wrestlers.
The left is skilled at destroying good people. The Holy Grail is to destroy a president in office. Nixon.
Yes, I think this is nonsense on every level. These young men were 18-22, soldier age. Not children. If the doctor is making passes at you, you go to his supervisor or the medical board. It’s not the assistant coach’s job to do anything. I mean, what can the coach do? He’s not the one who hired the doctor and far as I know, he’s not in the doctor’s chain of command.
Looks like the “Rats” have payed off some scumbags to lie about Jordan. Wonder how much they got? Soros money?
Well they finally got Scott Pruitt so now they go after another guy whose doing a good job.
Now his nephew is dead.
Examining wrestlers for athletic pubalgia is a reasonable activity for a team doctor.
By accusing Jordan of knowing is accusing every coach and every wrestler of knowing.
Every one of these medical interactions required a doctor’s note to be completed. Most of these institutional type exams are documented on forms. On the form is a box for genital exam. Sue the guy who produced the form. I guarantee it was not an assistant coach.
How many times has Dominik Hasek been “molested”?
But in this case the Dem’s facts are bad.
Where was the head coach? Why is he not mentioned in this? Very peculiar that he is not at fault?
Where are any official complaints at that time?
Where is a written notice that was ignored?
Does locker banter about men, women and sex, qualify for making charges of abuse by a doctor? That is the gist of this attack, that Jordan should have known.
Why suddenly should all this be on the shoulders of a 23 year-old asst coach, now 20 years after the fact, as a dereliction of duty? Jordan was never requested to do anything by anyone! And the liar accusers do admit that they never told him of their so-called abuse.
Are they trying to say this is a Jo Pa- Sandusky situation? Remember, that monster attacked children, and these so-called victims were men.
What is the history of the doctor? Were reports on his conduct ever made? Was their a trial or hearing?
IS this a money grab by the two main accusers who are basically con-men?
MSM fake news machine is low on oil gears smoking bearings squealing.
What he's got is a political witch hunt where he is siding with the accusers.
Why, in every case that has come up in the media since this #MeToo thing started, has every one of them been about accusations and allegations that occurred decades before?
If these "victims" would have reported these accusations to authorities back when they happened, they might be believable.
But waiting until a politically opportune moment to bring the allegations to the forefront, tells me that these accusers have an agenda they are pursuing. And they are lying to further that agenda. Or are being paid to further someone else's (the political Left) agenda.
The accusations are vague and not about Jordon committing any act himself. It is accusations against someone who is dead.
Coming out now claiming this happened two decades ago, doesn't do anything to solidify or lend credence to this allegation.
I was on the wrestling team at Arizona State University back in the late 60s.
I don't remember any wrestlers on our team who would tolerate such behavior by the team doctor nor not defend themselves with a sharp blow to the face of this physician.
College wrestlers are not wimpy, shrinking violets.
This story lacks credence from the get-go.
How does one defend against something that didn't occur?
The accusations center around allegations that the team doctor insisted on giving team members hernia tests each time he examined them. For all you ladies and those who never played high school sports, the hernia test consists of the the doctor placing two fingers underneath a man’s testicles and telling the athlete to turn his head and cough. If you went out for football, basketball or baseball, you were administered one of these tests by the team doctor before the season’s first practice, and likely any time you sustained any sort of injury, if your doctor was cautious.
Given the extreme physical nature of the sport of wrestling, it’s actually very easy to see why a team’s doctor would want to conduct such exams more frequently, and any group of high school and college-aged men would inevitably resort to joking about such an uncomfortable process. One of Jordan’s accusers – who was of course given copious air time by CNN this week – even stated that the doctor administered this test every time a wrestler had to be examined. This is not “sexual abuse,” this is a doctor doing his job. (My emphasis.)
So now all the issues of alleged "sexual abuse" by the conveniently deceased doctor, who can't even defend himself, turn out to be issues of sound medical judgment. Somehow or other it strikes me that a medical professional experienced in sports medicine would be much better able to make the call on when a hernia exam was appropriate than an 18 to 22 year old wrestler who desperately wanted to keep on wrestling even though he might have suffered a debilitating injury he didn't know about.
That doctor also had a major duty to his employer, the university, to make sure enthusiastic wrestlers, who may not have recognized the severity of their own injuries, were not allowed to continue wrestling until they were medically cleared. Otherwise the university could be exposed to major liability claims by young men who were improperly cleared and went on to severely injure themselves. That being the situation, the doctor had every reason to be excessively cautious, especially given how violent the sport is and how serious a hernia can be. Given the macho nature of male college wrestlers and their ribald sense of humor, it's easy to see how many could joke about how "old doc. Jones just queered me again" when they, and everyone around them, knew they were just joking about another medically appropriate hernia exam.
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