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ObviouslyRealPerson 18 hr ago +657

Of course Gym Jordan knew

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SuperSpecialAwesome- 12 hr ago +26

Just sucks Biden Chamberlain refused to punish him.

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ObviouslyRealPerson 12 hr ago +8

Or anyone else

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lostroadrunner22 18 hr ago +395

Can we file this in the 'No Shit' file?

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Zapdo0dlz 18 hr ago +92

Its too full

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lostroadrunner22 18 hr ago +44

Gonna need a bigger binder.

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NikkoTime 17 hr ago +22

They’re already full of women.

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OopsWeKilledGod 15 hr ago +6

Given who controls the binder, they are almost certainly children.

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Syn_Slash_Cash 6 hr ago +2

To be nostalgic about dumb shit like this, damn.

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Malaix 17 hr ago +32

Yeah titles like this make me feel like a time traveler to the past. "Gym Jordan" has been a thing for ages because everyone knew he covered up child sex abuse.

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theantig 18 hr ago +15

I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard he’s the one who orchestrated it for him

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crystal_tulip_bulb 18 hr ago +6

here at least watch the video afterwards

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zatalak 17 hr ago +6

Shit file's clogged

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ToughHopeful4760 16 hr ago +2

Pretty much. None of this is surprising if you’ve followed the story at all.

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fencerofminerva 18 hr ago +202

I’m shocked that a gop member of congress would turn a blind eye to sexual abuse of young people to protect their own position. /s

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kindnesscostszero 18 hr ago +45

Hastert led the House as Speaker, for how long? A fish rots from the head.

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ToughHopeful4760 15 hr ago +11

Hastert was Speaker for eight years, and the fact that his history only came out long after he left office shows how much can go unaddressed in institutions.

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Talentagentfriend 18 hr ago +24

Knowing how complicit they are with hiding the Epstein files, I would not be surprised if he was in charge of the abuse.

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AbaloneDifferent5282 17 hr ago +21

Even more shocking is how many times the people in Ohio have re-elected him.

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Aldo_says 14 hr ago +9

I asked someone from Ohio why re-elect the guy when he does nothing. The response was something along the lines of "I like he's *sticking it to the man*". I respond "he is *the man*". Crickets then performative grunting and hand waving trying to change the subject. You can't fix stupid.

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AbaloneDifferent5282 14 hr ago +3

We are truly doomed as a nation

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navylostboy 15 hr ago +8

What do you expect them to do? Vote for a democrat? /s

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Anneisabitch 14 hr ago +1

I know you’re shooting here but they could have easily primaried him and kept voting republican. Easily! Clearly a lot of people in his district feel the same way he does, there has to be a candidate pool to pick from! But no. They like him.

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navylostboy 13 hr ago +1

I’m sure his adds say that any other republican would lose to the democrat of the cycle, and a lot of “don’t switch horses mid stream” and “we have to keep our seniority as a district”

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bebopbrain 18 hr ago +149

Jim Jordan didn't cooperate with the investigation; that's really all you need to know.

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +63

Exactly — refusing to cooperate should’ve raised red flags on its own. It’s hard to trust oversight from someone who avoids it.

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Zanos-Ixshlae 14 hr ago +21

Abuse victims have come forward and said that Gym called them crying and begging them to not testify. I'd say that's witness tampering minimum. He still hasn't passed the Ohio Bar Exam, but he has a law degree...

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Connoralpha 18 hr ago +78

If we had any functional professionals in congress they would confront him on this until he resigned.

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lrpfftt 18 hr ago +56

If we had enough functional voters instead of blind party loyalists, he wouldn't be there either. Hard for the GOP to claim they oppose unethical behavior - more like they have a hard on for it.

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adrr 15 hr ago +3

They arent blind. They know. Like mother in law says, they(victims) will get over it.

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redditallreddy 11 hr ago +1

They have a hard on for it like it was a 14-year old girl.

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1eyedsnakes 16 hr ago +6

As an Ohioan: that’s the dream.

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MaxPower91575 16 hr ago +7

sadly 1/3 of this country isn't functional and believes as long as someone has an R next to their name they are an angel.

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +9

It really shows how badly oversight has broken down. Leadership roles should come with real accountability.

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SuperSpecialAwesome- 12 hr ago +3

If we had any functional DOJ, Biden Chamberlain would've locked up Gym Jordan.

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ToughHopeful4760 18 hr ago +23

It’s wild that Jordan is still chairing the Judiciary Committee. The article highlights yet another situation where serious oversight questions surround him. At minimum, Congress deserves leadership that takes accountability seriously.

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bp92009 13 hr ago +6

If accountability was important to congress, every single Republican Senator would have been prosecuted and incarcerated after they knowingly and willingly violated the Logan Act in 2017. Not a single criminal charge was levied against any of them, and no person who swore an oath to protect against "all threats, foreign and domestic" ever did anything but say "just following orders". We learned from that incident that congress is *above the law*, and after January 6th, we learned that this extends to *literal sedition*. Not a single member of congress who cast a vote to delay the counting of ballots on January 6th, or any judge who gave them aid and comfort is eligible to hold any political office under the 14th amendment (unless 2/3 of congress votes to remove them of such a penalty).

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ToughHopeful4760 13 hr ago +4

The article is specifically about Jim Jordan, and what’s documented is that he spoke with Trump multiple times on January 6 — something he has acknowledged publicly. Cassidy Hutchinson also testified that Jordan was closely involved in the events leading up to that day. That’s why a lot of people have concerns about him chairing the Judiciary Committee.

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bp92009 13 hr ago +1

Concerns enough to actually do anything? If they had big enough concerns, and they were being actively brushed off by the DoJ and federal court system, then the *correct* route is to *Publicly* go to the pentagon and demand that *they* enforce the 14th amendment against implicated individuals, including the ones who were complicit in rendering the Civil Court system nonfunctional. The DoJ and federal courts being incapable of quickly prosecuting such a clear cut violation of the constitution is ample justification of the requirements set out in Ex Parte Milligan (where Military Tribunals can only prosecute civilians when civil courts are nonfunctional). Or are those concerns only enough to have the people involved mutter "just following orders" as they proceed to do *nothing*, relying upon a clearly compromised and nonfunctional civil court system, being actively sabotoged by the implicated individuals in question?

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SuperSpecialAwesome- 12 hr ago +1

> Not a single member of congress who cast a vote to delay the counting of ballots on January 6th, or any judge who gave them aid and comfort is eligible to hold any political office under the 14th amendment (unless 2/3 of congress votes to remove them of such a penalty). Let's never forget that Trump is illegitimately holding office because Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi all refused to enforce his disqualification via the aforementioned Amendment. Biden Chamberlain, Schumer, and Jeffries deserve just as much prison time as the Jan 6 leaders. Inaction = complicity.

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NewsCards 18 hr ago +68

> Lombardo testified that he worked for the university from 1990 to 2004 and supervised Strauss for part of that time. In his deposition, he said that he learned in the early 1990s that Strauss was showering with athletes at Larkins Hall and told him to stop. He said he didn’t know he should have reported the allegations to law enforcement. > “That wasn’t something they discussed in the 1990s,” Lombardo said. Oh f*** off, even in the 90s, this would've been worthy of a report. Why else would they tell him to stop?

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kinglouie493 17 hr ago +27

Penn state has entered the chat

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jdprager 13 hr ago +8

To be clear, Penn State was absolutely also a failure of "That wasn't something they discussed in the 1990s". Sandusky worked at Penn State until his retirement in 1999, he wasn't investigated until 2008. The Penn State case, the Ohio State case, and the cases at the two Michigan schools from a while back are all delayed reckonings of a culture that refused to let these things come to light

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +13

The “we didn’t talk about that back then” defense really doesn’t make sense. If it was serious enough to tell him to stop, it was serious enough to report.

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Theduckisback 17 hr ago +13

Ohio State has multiple buildings named after Les Wexner still, to this day.

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +8

The Wexner connection is one of those things OSU has never fully confronted. It’s a big part of the larger story.

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DeadSharkEyes 16 hr ago +12

In the HBO documentary about this more than one of the men said they went to Jim Jordan, as he was very well liked and trusted, and he did nothing, and it broke their hearts. Incredibly sad, those poor men. I’m so angry for them.

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ToughHopeful4760 16 hr ago +6

The documentary was heartbreaking. Hearing them talk about how much they trusted him made it even worse. It’s incredibly sad. You could hear how much it affected them even decades later.

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lookslikesausage 16 hr ago +5

Former UFC heavyweight champion and NCAA champion Mark Coleman is one of them. Another heartbreaking piece of this story is how the OSU wrestling coach, Russ Helickson told his guys he'd stand behind them and testify on their behalf only to go back on his word when Jim Jordan begged him not to because it would be the end of his political career.

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ThePensiveE 15 hr ago +9

The GOP in Ohio is controlled and bankrolled by Epstein's buddy Les Wexner. The person running for Governor on the GOP ticket is a grifting scam artist. The former speaker of the Ohio House is in prison for corruption and is almost certainly going to be pardoned. Shit's bad in Ohio.

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ToughHopeful4760 13 hr ago

My whole family is from Ohio — my parents both went to Ohio State, and I still have a lot of relatives around Defiance and southern Ohio. It’s a state with a long history and a lot of good people, which is why the recent corruption cases have been so frustrating to watch. For a long time I couldn’t understand how some of these politicians kept getting reelected until I learned more about how the districts were drawn. Ohio State is a great university, and it’s a shame to see it dealing with this kind of stain.

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ThePensiveE 13 hr ago +1

Ohio has also gotten a lot redder overall. Rural hollowed out industrial towns which keep getting promises made to them but nobody delivering on those promises. The GOP gives them all someone to blame for their misfortunes and they gleefully take it.

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ToughHopeful4760 13 hr ago

A lot of Ohio’s political shift really does line up with the economic changes in those regions. When the industrial base hollowed out, the population patterns and district maps changed with it. Once I learned more about how the districts were drawn, it made a lot more sense how certain politicians kept getting reelected.

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8W20X5 18 hr ago +16

Probably? Jim Jordan knew what was happening and did nothing to protect the abused in any way. Just like he is helping to cover up Donald Trump's pedophilia.

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Heliocentrist 18 hr ago +14

Congressman Covered Up For Pedophile Rapist

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The-Traveler- 17 hr ago +14

I can’t believe Ohio keeps electing pedo protectors. It just sickens me.

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PigFarmer1 17 hr ago +9

They keep electing a guy who has never had a single bill passed into law.

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +3

Yeah, he’s been in Congress since 2007. That’s a long time to hold senior roles without any legislative output.

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Masark 15 hr ago +6

Given the kind of laws he's likely to create, he can go right on passing no laws for the remainder of eternity.

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DarKoopa 18 hr ago +13

It doesn't matter this dude admit he took part in the abuse and he would win his gerrymandered to hell distrct in a landslide.

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +3

Gerrymandering really shields politicians from accountability. It’s one reason stories like this rarely change outcomes.

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5pointpalm_exploding 14 hr ago

Yeah his constituents have proven they love sexual predators and their protectors. I’m sure the majority of them also consider themselves God loving Christians.

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Mrtoyhead 17 hr ago +7

His behavior points to him being very involved in it.

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idoma21 16 hr ago +6

The brother of the whistle blower had to have his lawyer stop Jordan from calling him. Jordan allegedly made numerous calls crying and asking the brother to contradict the whistle blower. Jordan never denied the calls. So there’s that.

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ToughHopeful4760 15 hr ago +2

This is what Adam DiSabato said in his testimony. The video has been online for years, and he talks about the calls very clearly. He also said Jordan was a coward and not a leader! DiSabato was the wrestling team leader.

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Professional-Head83 16 hr ago +6

"Probably?" I would say he "definitely" knew that was going on. He probably even saw it with his own creepy eyes.

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ToughHopeful4760 15 hr ago +2

What stood out to me in the testimony was how many wrestlers said it was basically common knowledge that Strauss would be in the showers with them, and that several of them went to Jordan about it. Hearing that directly from the athletes themselves was pretty powerful.

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worldscollice 18 hr ago +20

There's really no doubt that he knew. If cell phones were around at that time, Jordan probably would have recorded it for his viewing pleasure later.

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Round-Medicine2507 18 hr ago +11

There were contemporary confirmations he had been previously notified during the initial investigation

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +3

Yes, that’s what makes the “probably knew” phrasing feel so soft. People were raising concerns even back then.

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MadAstrid 15 hr ago +5

Well, his athletes begged for help because they were being raped and he refused to help them, so yeah, I think that counts as “probably knew”.

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PigFarmer1 18 hr ago +9

This falls under the category of "Duh"...

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Lonely_Noyaaa 17 hr ago +10

Jordan has built his political career on investigating everyone else, the Bidens, the FBI, the intelligence community. But when it comes to what his own boss, the wrestling coach, was allegedly doing to his own athletes, he suddenly can't remember anything.

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ToughHopeful4760 17 hr ago +4

Testimony later showed that some of the allegations being pushed around that time were traced back to Russian and Chinese disinformation efforts. It’s wild how quickly that part of the story got buried.

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someoldguyon_reddit 18 hr ago +12

The way republicans are today he probably participated.

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AbaloneDifferent5282 17 hr ago +8

Republicans support pedophiles. Full stop.

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ThoughtLocker 18 hr ago +4

"Probably" doing some heavy lifting here.

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BroseppeVerdi 16 hr ago +4

Dude, it's 2026. If this happened today, Richard Strauss himself could have walked away with a pardon if he declared himself to be MAGA.

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EH_Operator 15 hr ago +4

Should have been in jail for contempt alone a decade ago.

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ToughHopeful4760 15 hr ago +2

The part that gets me is that he defied two congressional subpoenas, and now he’s in a position where he wants to charge other people for the same thing. It’s hard to understand how someone with that record ends up chairing Judiciary.

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somethingrandom7386 13 hr ago +3

Gym Jordan covering up sexual abuse is probably what got him elected as a Republican.

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alreadyrotten 16 hr ago +3

It's just words to the GOP

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JiveChicken00 16 hr ago +3

I’d bet my lunch money on it.

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JonnyBravoII 16 hr ago +3

All jokes aside, there was a time where something like this would have caused someone to quit in embarrassment and shame, as it should. With Republicans, as we've learned, it's all performative when it comes to these things. They don't care about pedophiles or r*** or abortion. They only care when a Democrat is involved with something like that. When it's them, and let's face it, it usually is, they just call it fake news and move on. To be clear, the media plays right into this too.

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ToughHopeful4760 15 hr ago +2

I get where you’re coming from. What stands out to me is how different the expectations for accountability used to be. The testimony in this case has been out there for years, and it’s frustrating to see how little it seemed to matter.

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Correct_Emu7015 14 hr ago +3

But really, when is the light going to shine on Lindsey?

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InourbtwotamI 13 hr ago +2

Definitely knew and also knows burying the Trump-Epstein files is one more betrayal of public trust

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ToughHopeful4760 13 hr ago +1

The concern a lot of people have is exactly that — when information gets buried or minimized, it erodes public trust. That’s why transparency around all of these records matters so much, no matter who’s involved.

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Big-Snow-1937 10 hr ago +3

Wouldn’t it be amazing if voters in Jordan’s district reacted years ago—or any 2 years since— to what more than 200 brave former Ohio State students had to say about their abuse and Jordan’s complicity by refusing to be represented by this reprehensible liar? But no.

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GuthramNaysayer 17 hr ago +5

By all means keep voting these frauds in n though. Well done folks. You only show your stupidity. My state also. It sucks the majority are so full of stupid.

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crystal_tulip_bulb 18 hr ago +5

listen to that..." probably knew" b******* The people who were being abused Said that he knew.

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Goodgirl90xo 15 hr ago +2

He probably did know. It's not looking good for him right now.

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strugglz 15 hr ago +2

I thought there was strong evidence that he helped to cover it up.

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ScrumptiousLadMeat 10 hr ago +2

Of course they knew but for some reason men love to ignore and even defend predatory men. Even when the victims are other men.

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tosser1579 10 hr ago +3

Of course Gym Jordan knew, it is just no one on the right cares.

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PeaceandDogs 9 hr ago +1

I watched the documentary, I believe the students.

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pixelprophet 8 hr ago +2

Child rapist protector who weaponizes the DOJ and ignores his own subpoenas Gym Jordan? No f****** shit.

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Weaver270 18 hr ago +2

And nothing will happen, because the system has 2 tiers at least.

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AustinBaze 14 hr ago +1

Also, Trump probably has dementia, Epstein was probably a pedophile, sky is probably blue, Stephen Hawking was probably not a hoop star and Obituary Day is probably going to be a national holiday for sane people.

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Alwayssunnyinarizona 18 hr ago +1

OSU about to be raided by the FBI for made reasons.

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CannabisAttorney 17 hr ago +1

I love how this article conveniently leaves out the article before the university's name.

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AlienInUnderpants 12 hr ago

Gym Jordan is a self-serving, lying POS. The fact that Ohio keeps voting for him tells you all you need to know about Ohio.

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TrailerParkFrench 12 hr ago

And yet nothing will happen. No one will be held accountable, and we all edge a little closer to accepting that laws do not apply to the ruling class.

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punarob 12 hr ago

Guarantee he witnessed all of it and would go rub one out in the corner daily

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Shiplord13 6 hr ago +1

He knew and covered it up, because he didn't want him and his buddies to go prison for their involvement in a sex-abuse that went on at Ohio State. Had they actually pushed harder, Jim Jordan would likely still be in prison and not in Congress f****** over more people.

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gargolito 10 hr ago +1

Wasn't George Clooney supposed to have released a documentary about the whole thing a couple of years ago?

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ToughHopeful4760 7 hr ago +1

Clooney’s production company *did* announce a documentary series about the OSU abuse scandal back in 2020, but it never ended up being released. No trailer, no distributor, no follow‑up. The only major documentary that actually came out was the HBO one people here are talking about.

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JackSquirts 11 hr ago -2

This is what counts for news these days?

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diablol3 16 hr ago -2

What is the significance of this statement? What's the burden of proof for "probably"?

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Former Ohio State official testifies Rep. Jim Jordan ‘probably knew’ about campus abuse

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