Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) tore into his former party on MSNBC Friday night, over their decision to advance a speakership nomination for House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH).
"What does it tell you that this is a Republican Party that took the very unusual step, with a narrow margin, of siding with Democrats to oust its leader and now can't find a new one?" said anchor Ari Melber.
"It's — I can't even say it's unbelievable anymore," said Riggleman, who previously served as an adviser to the House January 6 Select Committee. "When you look at what's happening behind the conference... the screaming that was going on, I almost wonder, Ari, it's like monkeys flinging poo and screeching."
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"The conference you were once in," said Melber, as Riggleman laughed and concurred. "I don't know how you self-identify within the zoo analogy, but carry on."
"I think people forget that on the night of January 5th, at 11pm, Jordan sends a bizarre text to Mark Meadows that was actually a bit of a copy-paste from a document from Joseph Schmidt, former DOD inspector general, that uses sources from a newspaper like The Epoch Times, and the incredible Peter Navarro, and the sources on the page or on how to overturn the election," said Riggleman. "That's what Jim Jordan used to text to Mark Meadows that night. People are forgetting how involved Jordan was in this January 6th push."
"Let me slow you down," said Melber. "There are many ways to look at different people who could become speaker. Ideology and politics is one of them. People say, oh this person is more or less conservative in the Republican Party. You are saying the fact that this many, or a majority of Republicans today, Friday, are considering Jordan for speaker is concerning because of his record, not an ideology per se, but on evidence that he was part of an effort to overthrow the lawful win of an election?"
"Yeah," said Riggleman. "I think it's a bit both an ideology, but yeah. How do you have, in this time, and everybody knows about January 6th, you could have a complete Republican leadership, all three, we're talking about the speaker, the Majority Leader, and the whip, that all voted to overturn the election, or were actively involved in trying to coordinate overturning the election. And to me, knowing what I know about January 6th, knowing about the data that we have seen, all of Meadows' text messages, how Jordan was part of it all, we had 155 on the second vote that voted for Jim Jordan for speaker ... that, and I think it's shocking to me seeing that the GOP has gone this far. I knew it was going to get worse, but I didn't think it would be this bad. You have 155 people voting for an election denier for Speaker of the House."
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