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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ahhhh...now the DEEP STATE is being invoked by Jordan's supporters. Of course.[/quote]

Reading the NY Times, eh?
The author of this hit piece didn’t go into any detail about [b] the likely motivations of his accusers[/b].  She glossed over the questionable backgrounds of those screaming the loudest and making accusations against Jordan. 
And, if you believe the connection of this case to Perkins Coie is any coincidence, you are simply crazy.  Perkins Coie HIRED the company that brought us the Trump dossier.  That is not mere coincidence.  
Deep state?  Nah.  But, it is a coordinated effort to try to bring Jordan down.  But, it won’t work.  [/quote]

You mean their anger over Jordan not taking their complaints seriously? [/quote]

Oh, he is taking them seriously.  And, pointing out their motivations for falsely blaming him instead of actually looking to the people who may have actually been in the know.  
The NY Times author also did not reference the threatening emails sent to Jordan by Mike DiSabato.  [/quote]

No, he did not take their complains seriously. That's why these guys are mad, and I don't blame them. You really think Jordan had no idea about what was going on and four wrestlers (and counting) and a former UFC champion are lying? Would you let him supervise your kid's wrestling program?[/quote]

I bet you haven’t heard about the wrestlers who are defending Jordan and even questioning whether abuse occurred.  Interesting that these allegations come out well after the alleged assailant has died.

[quote]George Pardos, who left the Marine Corps to wrestle at Ohio State from 1988 to 1993, said the same. There were always rumors about the doctor who showered with the team, Pardos told me, “but [a] lot of the stories were just running jokes.” Older than most of the other wrestlers because of his time enlisted, Pardos said he served as “an unofficial team captain” and can’t recall hearing a single allegation of abuse.

And while Pardos noted that Jordan “literally carried me” to get medical treatment after an injury and checked another teammate into rehab for drug abuse, the two weren’t exactly best friends. “Let me say this,” he said after a pause during a long phone interview, “me and Jimmy didn’t really get along. He didn’t really like me a lot.”

But while the two “butted heads” over religion and politics, Pardos insisted Jordan was incapable of ignoring abuse. If the assistant coach knew Strauss was abusing students, Pardos tells me, “knowing Jimmy I think he would’ve ripped of his arm and beat him with it.”

Jude Skove agreed albeit in somewhat less violent terms. He wrestled at Ohio State from 1981 to 1986 and would win a Division 1 National Championship one year before Jordan joined the team as assistant coach. During his five years wrestling, including his three as team captain, Skove says none of his teammates “ever came to me and ever expressed any issues or concerns.”

“Strauss was known to be a little weird. He would take two showers in one day, and we’d just laugh it off like ‘really doc?’” Skove recalls. “He’s our team physician, so he’s giving you physicals, and he’s touched you everywhere, doing the cough thing. But he never, just in my experience with my peers, he never crossed a line.”

Skove, who wrestled and trained with Jordan at the East-West tournament when the congressman was a student at the University of Wisconsin, couldn’t imagine Jordan ignoring abuse. “He definitely would’ve represented the wrestlers. From what I know of Jim and his personality, he’s not a flower. He isn’t going to wilt if something’s going on.”

Some like Lee Kemp, a gold-medal Olympian and national champion, argue that accusations are part of campaign to discredit Jordan now that the Ohio Republican is considering a bid for House Speaker. “This doctor worked with other sports teams too,” Kemp told me by phone. “Why pick out Jim? Clearly, this is an attempt to smear him.”

Kemp takes credit for recruiting Jordan to the University of Wisconsin as a student and said in an earlier statement that the idea “Jim would know of abuse of his wrestlers and do nothing is utterly absurd.”[/quote]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/former-coaches-wrestlers-and-colleagues-rush-to-defend-rep-jim-jordan

[quote]A former wrestler is speaking out in support of his former coaches who some say turned a blind eye to sexual abuse.

George Pardos said he has met with the independent investigative team who is interviewing former student athletes and coaches as allegations swirl regarding former team doctor Richard Strauss.

Some athletes have talked about sexual misconduct dating back to the 1970s against Strauss, who killed himself in 2005 and only now is under investigation.
Pardos, who first wrestled in the United States Marines, and then for Ohio State from 1988 to 1993, said he never experienced sexual abuse.
“I have had 20 or so examinations with Strauss over the five years and not one time did he act inappropriately toward me. I had to be in there completely naked. Not one time did he do anything that I could deem inappropriate. If there was abuse, coaches would have had to go to law enforcement.Abuse and inappropriate are two different things,” said Pardos. “Even though there’s some things that might be inappropriate, do they rise to a level of sexual abuse ? I don’t think it did.”[/quote]

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/former-wrestler-speaks-out-in-support-of-his-former-coaches-during-strauss-investigation[/quote]

Washington Examiner and Sinclair Broadcasting.[/quote]

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