Jim Jordan had one tough message for Donald Trump about fighting the Swamp

Donald Trump hasn’t taken office yet and he’s already battling the Washington, D.C. Swamp. 

The Swamp creatures want to sink his Presidency before it can get off the ground. 

And Jim Jordan had one tough message for Donald Trump about fighting the Swamp. 

The Swamp tries to tank Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations 

The Washington, D.C. Swamp revealed who it fears in President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet based on how hard it fights them. 

A vicious smear campaign was run against former Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) when Trump nominated him to be Attorney General. 

Gaetz pulled his name from consideration, rather than be a distraction to the President-elect’s agenda. 

Another group of Trump nominees are facing the same character assassinations because they represent a threat to the status quo in Washington, D.C. 

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard, FBI director nominee Kash Patel, and Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are having their names dragged through the mud. 

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) urged Trump to stand his ground on his cabinet nominees during an appearance on Newsmax’s Finnerty. 

“You just push through it,” Jordan explained. “I mean, they tried to do it to Brett Kavanaugh, and everyone hung tough, and the facts and the truth prevailed in the end. You have to have that attitude. We’re going to push through. We’re going to have the right people.”

The Swamp has revived the playbook used during the 2018 nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 

They’re trying to sink Hegseth’s nomination before he gets to the confirmation hearings in an avalanche of lies and innuendo. 

Jordan warns the Senate it must confirm Trump’s nominees

Jordan said it was “critical” that the Senate confirm Gabbard because she supports shutting down warrantless spying on American citizens by the FBI and intelligence agencies.

“Tulsi is with us on this FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] reform that we so desperately need,” Jordan said. “The idea that if you’re going to go search this huge database of information and you’re going to use an American citizen’s name, phone number, or address, you’ve got to go get a warrant. That’s how our system works.”

The FBI apologized for using FISA to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 Election. 

“You’ve got to go to a separate and equal branch of government and get a probable cause warrant to go search people’s information, for goodness’ sake,” Jordan added. “Tulsi is with us on that.”

The Ohio lawmaker pointed to Trump’s other cabinet nominees, who are facing pushback from the Swamp, as valuable allies. 

“RFK is with us on protecting liberty and protecting freedom. Kash Patel is with us. Kash is the guy who said what they did … Hillary Clinton paid [law firm] Perkins Coie, who hired Fusion GPS, who hired a foreigner, Christopher Steele, to create a false fake dossier that they used to go spy on a presidential campaign. But for Kash Patel, we don’t get that information,” Jordan explained. 

“So it’s critical these people get in these positions,” Jordan continued. “You have to hang tough and push through and persevere all the way to the end.”

Jordan told the Senate they needed to confirm Trump’s nominees because voters handed him a mandate for change after an overwhelming victory. 

“He’s the one who has been sent with a mandate to go fix the craziness in our government,” Jordan said. “There should be a lot of deference for the picks that he has.”

Donald Trump’s fight to confirm his nominees is his first major battle with the Swamp of his second term.