A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is trying to pretend that he never attempted to discredit the Indianapolis Star’s report of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio who was forced to travel to neighboring Indiana to obtain an abortion because abortions are illegal in Jordan’s state.
“I hear some people defending the ‘political prisoners,’” Gonell said. “To me, that tells me they consider me the bad guy of the whole story, and it’s not only me who feels that way. I think there’s a lot of disheartening by the way they are going about fighting for the people who attacked the police officers at the Capitol, continually defending the whole chaos, the insurrection, whatever they want to call it. It was bad, not only for myself or the other officers, for the country, for democracy, but yet those are the people that they are defending, the people who attacked the police officers in full uniform who were defending the Capitol on that day.”
“The ex-president and his inner circle have started to consider making ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows take the fall for Trump’s election steal scheme”
And Mark Meadows, upon hearing this, said - Oh please, please, can I be the sucker who takes the fall for the glory and majesty of Trump? PLEASE? I love Trump and would do anything he asks.