Former RNC chair to Jim Jordan on Jan. 6: 'You know, b****, what time you called the president'

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele: Telling it like it is.

 

By Jeremy Beaman 

Washington Examiner 

 

 Former Republican National Committee Chairman 

 

Michael Steele called Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan a "son

 

of a b****" for his recent remarks that he wasn't 

 

certain whether he spoke to former President  

 

Donald Trump on Jan. 6.

 

 

The former RNC chairman, a frequent critic of the

 

former president, expressed disbelief that Jordan 

 

would be uncertain of the details of his 

 

conversation with Trump surrounding Jan. 6.

 

 

"I can tell you the time, the place, the date of every conversation

 I've had with every president of this country, period," Steele said 

 during a Thursday livestream for the Lincoln Project, a group of 

 current and former Republican operatives who oppose Trump.

 "Going back to Bill Clinton, I can tell you where I was. I can tell

 you what was said. This son of a b**** is sitting up there acting

 like, 'Well, I don't know if it was before. I don't know if it was

 after. Oh, lordy, Jesus, I don't remember. I got to look at my

 notes.' You know, b****, what time you called the president,

 and you know what you said."

 

Steele then compared Jordan, who's a "grown a** man," to a

 10-year-old who "got caught masturbating by [his] mama."

"Stop it," he advised Jordan. 

 

On Tuesday, Jordan told Fox's Bret Baier that he "can't 

remember all the days" he spoke with Trump after being

asked whether he and the former president talked on

 the day of the Capitol riot.

 

"Yes, I mean I've talked to the president — I've talked to

 the president so many — I can't remember all the days

 I've talked to him, but I've certainly talked to the president,"

 Jordan said. 

 

He subsequently acknowledged specifically speaking to 

Trump on Jan. 6 in a separate interview.

 

"I spoke with him that day, after? I think after," Jordan told 

 Spectrum News reporter Taylor Popielarz. "I don't know

 if I spoke with him in the morning or not. I just don't know ... 

I don't know when those conversations happened." 

 

Jordan, a close Trump ally, and Indiana Rep. Jim Banks

were blocked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi from serving on the

 chamber's commission investigating Jan. 6 after Minority

Leader Kevin McCarthy selected them and three others to

 participate in the commission.

 

McCarthy subsequently pulled all five of his appointees

 from the commission, leaving Trump critics Reps. Liz

Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as the only Republicans on

 the committee. 

 

Trump was impeached for his words and actions preceding

 the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, but he was later acquitted in the

 Senate. He was previously impeached on two Ukraine-related

 charges in 2019 before being acquitted in the Senate.

  

Herr Jordan: Can't remember if he talked to Trump on Jan. 6.