Jim Jordan declares he is '100% for President Trump' in 2024 amid ongoing legal issues

Conservative firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, declared Friday that he is "100% for President Trump" in the 2024 presidential election despite the ongoing legal issues facing the former president.

Speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of his speech to the National Rifle Association convention, Jordan argued Trump was the only president to do what he said he was going to do, and did so successfully despite the entire political establishment standing against him.

"No one has demonstrated that they will do what they said and get things done like he did, and he did it with everyone in that town against him. And that's what I still respect about President Trump, and I'm for him all the way," Jordan said when asked about the increasingly heated Republican presidential primary contest.

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Alongside his certainty over Trump's candidacy, Jordan stressed he "liked" all the current and potential candidates, and that he was "friends" with each of them.

"I just talked to Vice President Pence. Great guy … Governor DeSantis, a great guy. When we formed the Freedom Caucus, there were nine of us. He was one of the nine. But I am 100% for President Trump," he said.

Jordan has been one of Trump's staunchest defenders against the felony falsification of business records charges brought against him by New York district attorney Alvin Bragg last week, and has launched an inquiry into the latter over his efforts targeting the former president, which includes subpoenas to provide documents pertaining to the investigation to the House Judiciary Committee later this month.

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Bragg, in turn, sued Jordan over the subpoenas alleging he is trying to wage a campaign of intimidation over his prosecution of Trump.

In addition to expressing his support for Trump, Jordan told Fox that Republicans needed to win elections to prevent Democrats from eroding Americans' Second Amendment rights.

"I always tell folks the Second Amendment is right next to the first for a reason. It's darn important, and we need to understand that and not let the left continue to chip away because ultimately they want to get rid of it," he said. 

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"But whether it's the crazy red flag laws, whether it's what the ATF is doing with the pistol brace rule, on and on it goes. They keep chipping away, but their end goal is to get rid of it, and we got to stop it," he added.

Jordan argued that when Democrats call for Republicans to meet them in the middle on gun legislation, that their definition of meeting in the middle was "to take away your gun" and to "take away the firearms of law-abiding Americans."

"You can't meet them in the middle because we just fundamentally disagree. Our Constitution fundamentally disagrees with where they want to go," he said. 

"And again, I think people with common sense and logic understand that these tragedies are terrible. We wish they never happened. But the answer is not to take firearms away from law-abiding American citizens," he said, referencing the recent shootings of people in Louisville, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee.

Jordan added that the new Republican controlled House of Representatives was looking to pass a resolution to block a new rule from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banning pistol stabilizing braces.

Manchin’s wife broke 'conflicts of interest' ethics pledge, emails show

Gayle Manchin, wife of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), appears to have violated an ethics pledge by advising an organization with ties to her husband's campaign despite vowing to recuse herself from matters where she had a "financial interest," according to emails obtained by Fox News Digital.

According to the emails, Manchin quietly advised Coalfield Development, a nonprofit organization, in October 2021 on a $62.8 million grant from the American Rescue Plan that ultimately led to an organization headed by her husband's campaign committee and leadership PAC's treasurer receiving millions of dollars from the grant.

The ethics pledge Manchin signed in April 2021 stated she would recuse herself from such advisement boards to "avoid any actual or apparent conflicts of interest."

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Coalfield Development’s ACT Now Coalition was one of 21 recipients competing for $100 million in American Rescue Plan funding. The Charleston Area Alliance, headed by Sen. Manchin's treasurer, Jack Rossi, and Marshall University collectively received $13 million from the $63 million granted to Coalfield Development's coalition.

According to an October 19, 2021 email, the CEO of Coalfield Development Brandon Dennison, sent Gayle Manchin his Build Back Better grant application, stating they spoke on the phone about their effort as "complementary and supportive of the ARC-initiated effort."

Dennison also said that although the application process is "highly competitive," he was "looking forward to continued collaboration" with the ARC.

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, the ARC said "Federal Co-Chair Manchin does not have any financial interest in Coalfield Development, nor in the ACT Now Coalition." The ARC also said that while Gayle Manchin "encouraged organizations in Appalachia to apply" for the Build Back Better grant, she had "no role in approving any EDA Build Back Better applications."

Gayle Manchin also served on the board of Reconnecting McDowell, a partner of Coalfield Development, until resigning from the post upon confirmation of her ARC post. However, Reconnecting McDowell's website still lists Manchin as a partner as of April 13, 2023. 

The ARC, however, told Fox News Digital that "Gayle Manchin has never had any financial ties with Reconnecting McDowell."

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Even though the Charleston Area Alliance received millions from the grant, the ARC claimed that "Rossi is not the beneficiary of the grant; instead, the beneficiaries of the grant will include everyday Appalachians in the region’s coal-impacted communities."

Gayle Manchin is paid upwards of $160,000 annually for her position at the ARC, which is an economic development partnership agency of the federal government and 13 state governments. The ARC has invested more than $4.5 billion in the Appalachian Region.

Gayle Manchin was appointed by President Biden to the ARC in April 2021, just one month after Sen. Manchin ultimately voted for the American Rescue Plan.

Manchin is considered to be the Senate's top swing vote and is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senator also chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

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