Representative Jim Jordan turned the tables on CNN’s Dana Bash as she asked him to condemn the non-existent violence that arose following President Donald Trump’s indictment in the classified documents probe.
Bash asked Jordan: “I have to ask about what we’re hearing from some members of your party, alluding to possible violence after this indictment. Congressman Andy Biggs says we are entering a ‘war phase.’ Congressman Clay Higgins tweeted some cryptic references to possible war plans. Kari Lake said the DOJ will have to go through millions of NRA members to get Trump. Will you be clear that no Americans should be violent?”
Jordan fired back: “Of course we don’t want violence. We’ve condemned violence every time – I condemned it when it happened on January 6th. I condemned it when it happened in the summer of 2020. It would have been nice if the left would have done the same, because what I saw – actually, frankly, I saw it on your network, I saw reporters standing in front of a burning building saying, ‘Oh, it is mostly peaceful protests’ in 2020. Let’s condemn the violence every time it happens.”
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Back in August 2020, CNN was widely mocked after correspondent Omar Jimenez was reporting in front of a burning building in the wake of rioting following the justified police shooting of Jacob Blakem and the chyron on screen read "FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING."
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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