The big stack of paper strategy wasn't as clever as he thought
By staging a barrage of theatrics, the logic went, no one would notice the GOP has no real plan for governing the country. “We can’t just be the party that says weird shit,” says one prominent Republican. “We have to pretend to investigate that weird shit.”copied and pasted from other students.
In the days before the election, Republican leaders tasked Jordan with delivering a broadside against the Justice Department and the FBI. His report was supposed to feature thin evidence of the agencies’ bias against conservatives, which could then be passed off as blockbuster revelations. “It didn’t have to be a real report,” says House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. “We would have been happy with 10 pages of batshit accusations — as long as they couldn’t be immediately disproven.”
Jordan did manage to summon 50 pages of anonymous finger-pointing. But it was largely reheated material from previous finger-pointing. To cloak his shortcomings, he resorted to a time-honored high school move:as the Washington Post put it. By copying 1,000 pages of letters from fellow students whining about the FBI, he hoped sheer heft would obscure the absence of proof.
“I get it,” says McCarthy. “He’s thinking, ‘Nobody’s ever going to read 1,000 pages written by Jim Jordan.’”called the pile of old letters a “preview of what the GOP majority may uncover after the midterms.”. “Congressman Jim Jordan is taking on the FBI—which has Disgraced itself. He just dropped a 1000 page report detailing its CORRUPTION. MUST BE OVERHAULED and possibly DISBANDED!”
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