Rep. Jordan's office to contact police after receiving emails from alleged sex assault victim

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Source: cnn

Updated 1:27 PM ET, Wed July 4, 2018

Source: CNN
Jim Jordan: Allegations against me aren't true 01:51

Washington (CNN)Rep. Jim Jordan's office will contact Capitol Hill police after receiving emails from an alleged victim of sexual abuse at Ohio State University when the Ohio Republican was an assistant wrestling coach, a source within the office told CNN Wednesday.

The source added that the messages were vaguely threatening in nature in part because of the amount of emails sent, and that Jordan did not respond to the emails because he felt the man was "bullying him."

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The alleged victim, Mike DiSabato, had been sending emails for a few months, the source said.

Jordan didn't respond to the emails because he didn't want to encourage the behavior, the source said. Speaking to reporters at a Fourth of July celebration in Fremont, Ohio, on Wednesday, Jordan said he last spoke with DiSabato early this spring................................


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Interesting that Jordan spoke with DiSabato this spring.

Link to tweet

A few replies:



Robin AndersonWatson
‏ @RLandwat
8m8 minutes ago
Replying to @CNNPolitics

HE felt bullied? That's rich. But I guess he would recognize that better than most. Sort of takes one to know one kind of thing.
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‏ @PSchauben
5m5 minutes ago

Replying to @CNNPolitics

He felt threatened because there were a lot of emails?!?! And they call us snowflakes! Maybe it’s not fear, but guilt he is feeling.
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William A Zimmerman
‏ @Loxsley
6m6 minutes ago

Replying to @CNNPolitics

If anyone knows about bullying techniques It's Jordon.


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Kendra Petrichor @kikuandjuju
8m8 minutes ago

Wait. A Republican gets emails and decides to get the police involved to investigate a man who’s name we know and the story goes public without knowing the content of those emails—-and it’s the LIBERALS who are assassinating one’s character? Oh. Ok.

rmc ‏ @Thelast_try
22m22 minutes ago

Replying to @CNNPolitics

And so it begins . Jordon will somehow end up as a victim

[SamKnause]

1. Fucking lying wimp.

He felt he was being bullied.

Poor lying sack of shit.

Jim Jordan is a Republican, a Tea Party Republican.

Republicans are EVIL FUCKING LIARS !!!!!!!

[olegramps]

16. I dislike this guy so much that I will believe anything smearing him. Have I come to this?

It is really a sad state of affairs when I hope that they crucify the bastard. I watched as they tried to destroy Hilary Clinton and it made me sick to my stomach. I guess that I am so damn tired of these bastards that I really don't give a damn what happens to them. They are like a pack of vultures or hyenas. There seems to be no end to their evilness. Is there just one, just one that has a conscience. Is there just one that puts the welfare of our nation before their hated that consumes them like a disease? Is there any end to this madness before we all go stark raving mad?

[dhill926]

18. you're not alone, gramps......

[Gothmog]

2. Betty Bowers-It's like Pizzagate. Only true. And bigger. And Republican.

Link to tweet

[thucythucy]

14. It really does seem to me now

that if you want to know what Republicans are up to, look at what they're projecting onto Democrats.

"The Clinton Foundation is corrupt!" Except it isn't, and the Trump Foundation is.

"Democrats are running a pedophile ring!"

Except they aren't, and the GOP at the very least has a long history of, at the very least, tolerating such atrocities. I mean, does anybody else remember Speaker Hastert? The GOP Congressional page scandal? Etc. Etc.

I'm sure there are other instances of his. They accuse us of what they know they themselves are doing.

It's like a sickness with them.

[Raven123]

3. So jj chooses to ignore email "bullies"

But forces government officials to take his verbal abuse face-to-face in public forums. Talk about double standards.

[Solly Mack]

4. He is attempting to set the victim up as unstable and therefore not credible

[GulfCoast66]

5. Attacking a sex abuse victim

GOP family values

[BaronChocula]

6. Please MAGA goppers! Please...

Make a former wrestling coach your House Speaker. What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-dennis-hastert-mugshot-met-20170719-story.html

[magicarpet]

7. Maybe Jordan should have contacted the police way back....

.... when these young men initially contacted him as the assistant wrestling coach about the sexual abuse.

Jordan let the complaint slide back then but now he calls the cops. Something seems backwards here.

Jordan now feels threatened by the email contact... but he ignored the young men when they complained aand asked for help about sexual molestation - and took no/zero action to help them.

[SummerSnow]

8. Oh really?

[RhodeIslandOne]

9. He's the victim????

LOL, he's perfect to be the GOP standard bearer! Swear him in right now. A bigger crybaby than Lyan Ryan!!!

[oberliner]

10. Strauss sexually assaulted and/or raped a minimum of 1,500/2,000 athletes at OSU

That is so vile and sickening and heartbreaking.

[gademocrat7]

11. Jordan is no victim.

He needs to resign.

[True Blue American]

12. There was not just one, there were three, just for starters.

The news said 1500/2000 kids were involved, and the stories coming out about sex all over.

[mr_lebowski]

15. C'mon, how it is this even possible?

And NOBODY did anything?

A number of that magnitude strains belief.

If that's accurate then I'd bet you that at some point Jordan is going to walk back his 'I didn't know' story and start peddling a 'I knew the Gay Agenda Corruption in the Ivory Towers of the Liberal Elite was so entrenched that I knew there's nothing I could do in terms of reporting was going to have any effect! They already knew!' storyline.

[moonseller66]

13. Uh, hey hypocrites...

and he and I'm sure a lot of Buckeye fans had a lot to say about Paterno but at least Paterno told his superiors who did nothing. Some wanted ALL sports at Penn State shut down. Sauce for the goose, for those Buckeye fans who blasted Joe?
Let's see if we hear a pin drop from all those who complained about Penn State.

And no, I'm not a Penn State alumni.

[SWBTATTReg]

19. And they ignored all of these claims because of the all mighty dollar and reputation ...

of the sport involved. Just like Penn State. And, to be fair, I'm sure that there are other clubs involved in this country that have such claims being made against them. It's just too much money involved for these schools that they are scared to upset the golden cart, hurt scholarships, etc.

A flimsy excuse. The reputation of the school is damaged far more if they engage in a cover up (e.g., Penn state) instead of being pro-active about the whole mess, after all, crap does happen unfortunately and one does need to weed crap out of our schools like this and make them safe for all of us.

[BigmanPigman]

17. E-mails and unsecured phone lines and faulty

security clearances by the GOP, yet we hear Lock Her Up at the moron's pep rallies.

[Judi Lynn]

20. Former Ohio State Wrestler Responds to Jim Jordan's Claim He's 'Bullying' Congressman: 'Somewhat Lau

by Rachel Dicker | 6:33 pm, July 4th, 2018

Former Ohio State wrestler Mike DiSabato found it mildly ridiculous that Rep. Jim Jordan would think he was bullying him.

In an interview with CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Wednesday, DiSabato explained that it was “somewhat laughable” that Jordan’s office would claim that DiSabato was bullying him into getting involved with a sexual assault investigation into The Ohio State University wrestling team doctor Richard Strauss.

“First of all, Jim Jordan is a world-caliber athlete who is very aggressive,” DiSabato explained. “He’s a bulldog. Let’s be honest. I think we saw a lot of that last week with [Deputy Attorney General] Mr. [Rod] Rosenstein.

“For him to say he was being bullied by Mike DiSabato’s somewhat laughable,” he continued. “I’ll take it because I’ve never bullied Jim Jordan on the mat. He was a heck a lot of better than me at the time.”

“Yet again, I think Jim is in a position where he doesn’t know what to say now because I think he received absolutely terrible advice from whomever was advising him because, again, all you have to do is research the word abuse.”

More:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-ohio-state-wrestler-responds-to-jim-jordans-claim-hes-bullying-congressman-somewhat-laughable/

[Judi Lynn]

21. Former Ohio State Wrestler: We 'Begged' Rep. Jordan to Get Involved With Sex Abuse Investigation

by Aidan McLaughlin | 5:41 pm, July 4th, 2018

Former Ohio State Wrestler Mike DiSabato appeared on CNN Wednesday afternoon after Rep. Jim Jordan again denied allegations he knew about sexual abuse at the university.

DiSabato’s allegations prompted an investigation at OSU earlier this year and were the subject of an NBC News report in which he claimed Jordan — who served as an assistant wrestling coach — ignored sexual abuse of wrestlers by the team’s doctor, Richard Strauss.

After detailing instances of the abuse, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin asked DiSabato about the specific times he claims to have told Jordan about the doctor’s behavior.

“These conversations were not individual conversations,” DiSabato said. “They were conversations with a group of athletes who were complaining on a regular basis, not only about Dr. Strauss but the conditions within Larkin’s hall that forced us to take showers with not only Dr. Strauss, but other university faculty members and professors who had access to our shower facility, and on a daily basis were involved in lewd acts that included public masturbation [and] excessive soaping of their groin area.”

More:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-ohio-state-wrestler-we-begged-rep-jordan-to-get-involved-with-sex-abuse-investigation/