Spandex-onesie wearing Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan on Wednesday confirmed he was the unnamed lawmaker whom on the night of January 5th sent a text message to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reading: “On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all – in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. ‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916).”
During debate in the House chamber on Tuesday, California Dem Congressman Adam Schiff presented on screen only the section of the text message preceding the dash, something the fanboys are now going apeshit over, claiming Schiff “doctored it” by omitting the rest for brevity.
We shouldn’t be surprised given his actions over the past 5 years and given how my emails magically had their dates changed, but he will continue to do this till someone steps up & says enough!
Schiff Doctored J6 Texts Between Mark Meadows & Jim Jordan https://t.co/PIHl5LASfK
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 15, 2021
So leaving out the part where he cites Alexander Hamilton to justify the bullshit plan is “doctoring the text message” somehow. There’s also the contention that Jordan did not write it himself but merely forwarded the text that’s supposed to be exculpatory for some fucking reason. “One Republican colleague of Jordan laughed out loud when asked by The Federalist if Jordan was known for sending lengthy texts” writes Federalist scrotum Sean Davis. Apparently that means we’re supposed to say to ourselves “Haha! That Jim Jordan’s so laconic in written communication – in contrast to his spoken verbosity! Haha!” Lost on us is why that actually matters, because Jordan still sent that to Meadows and whether he himself wrote it or someone else did is immaterial.