A new book by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, describes a tense interaction between Liz Cheney (R–Wyo.) then- Republican conference chair and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol on Jan. 6.
According to an excerpt of the book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year, published in the Daily Beast, Cheney slapped away Jordan hands as he tried to get her to safety when Trump supporters took over the Capitol on Jan. 6.
On Jan. 7, Liz Cheney, then the number three Republican in the House before her subsequent demotion for recognizing what Romney did not, recalled what had happened on Jan. 6. Talking with Joint Chief of Staff Chair Mark Milley, who is one of the adults in the room who Leonnig and Rucker depend on in their reporting and cast as something of a hero, Cheney ripped into “That fucking guy Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch… While these maniacs are going through the place, I’m standing in the aisle and he said ‘We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.’ I smacked his hand away and told him, ‘Get away from me. You fucking did this.’”
Daily Beast report on an excerpt from I Alone can Fit it.
Jordan was a staunch Trump ally in the House who tried to overturn the election in Congress. He has also questioned the legitimacy of election results numerous times leading up to the insurrection on Jan 6.
He called for Congress to investigate the election after it was called for Joe Biden and said in December that no one can convince him that Donald Trump did not win re-election, according to Mediaite.
Jordan was also one of the Republicans leading the movement to oust Cheney as the House GOP conference chair for not being loyal to Donald Trump and the lie that the election was stolen from him.
