The New York Times reported last week that Representative Jim Jordan participated in a meeting at the White House, where he plotted with Trump on how best to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election.
He also went on record saying, "I don't know how you can ever convince me that President Trump didn't actually win this thing."
Jordan also voted against certifying the results of the presidential election, signed onto a legal brief asking the Supreme Court to reject the election results, and voted against creating the House select committee to investigate the insurrectionist riot.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy nevertheless tried to appoint Jordan to the investigatory panel—a choice House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected—because as Representative Liz Cheney noted, Jordan may very well be called to testify before the committee, because of his involvement in the January 6th attack.
His conflict of interest aside, it is becoming increasingly clear why:
Jordan appeared on Fox News on Tuesday and conceded that he and Trump spoke on January 6th.
Taylor Popielarz of Spectrum News interviewed Jordan later, and tried to nail down the details. "Yes or No: Did you speak with President Trump on January 6?"
"Yeah, I mean, I speak—I spoke with the president last week. I speak with the president all the time. I spoke with him on January 6th. I mean, I talk with President Trump all the time. And that's—that's—I don't think that's unusual. I would expect members of Congress to talk with the President of the United States when they're trying to get done the things they told the voters in their district to do. I'm actually kind of amazed sometimes that people keep asking this question. Of course, I talk to the president all the time. I talked, like I said, I talked with him last week."
Asked to clarify whether he and Trump spoke before, during, or after the Capitol attack, Jordan added:
"Uh, I'd have to go, I'd—I—I—I just don't know. Uh, I'd have to go back and, I mean, I don't—I don't—I don't know, uh, that—when those conversations happened. But, um, what I know is that I spoke with him all the time."
He then tried to change the subject.