Jim Jordan Wonders if Anybody ‘Really Thinks’ the Media Wouldn’t Blame Trump ‘If There Were Lines to Get Gas During His Term?’

U.S. House Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) weighed in recently on the gas shortage in a tweet where he speculated that if the situation had happened during Donald Trump’s presidency, the media wouldn’t be trying to shift blame from him the way they are with President Joe Biden.

Jordan asked in a tweet, “Do you really think the media wouldn’t blame President Trump if there were lines to get gas during his term?”

Do you really think the media wouldn’t blame President Trump if there were lines to get gas during his term?

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 14, 2021

Earlier today, the Associated Press ran a story titled, “Conservatives seize on gas crunch to blame Biden, stir base.”

The article begins by painting a picture of those who have posted on social media attempting to tie in the president to the gas shortage: “A graphic calling the East Coast fuel supply crunch ‘Biden’s Gas Crisis.’ A tweet speculating that gas stations running dry was an ‘INSIDE JOB.’ A meme depicting the president and vice president cheering about the ‘Green New Deal’ in front of a snaking line at a fuel station.”

“These and thousands of other social media posts along with conservative websites and commentators this week misleadingly painted President Joe Biden and his administration as catalysts of chaos — who not only mishandled the temporary shutdown of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline on Friday — but engineered it,” Ali Swenson, the writer of the piece continued.

Swenson then informs her readers that she believes, “In reality, a ransom-seeking cyberattack, not a Biden executive order or energy policy, triggered the shutdown that drove residents of states such as North Carolina to panic-buy so much gas that nearly 70% of service stations in the state remained without fuel on Thursday afternoon.”

“Misleading narratives targeting Biden began picking up speed on Monday, the day North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper became the first of several governors to declare a state of emergency over the disruption,” Swenson claimed, using the word “misleading” yet again.

Swenson then goes on to list various tweets and posts, also noting that Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity was the first to broadcast the graphic of Biden smiling with the words “Biden’s Gas Crisis,” a term which she said later gained momentum on Facebook and Twitter.

The piece is then concluded with Swenson highlighting all of the different issues that the Biden administration is currently grappling with and suggesting that “Higher energy prices often have political fallout, complicating reelection campaigns for incumbents outside oil-producing regions.”

Swenson quoted Doug Heye, a “Republican strategist” based in Washington, who essentially made it seem like those expressing their frustrations were doing it for political reasons.

Heye said that that the Biden administration’s message that the problem was a supply crunch rather than a gas shortage, while accurate, didn’t satisfy Americans who couldn’t find gas to fill their cars and that “You have Republican division over the House Republican Conference and you had a hearing yesterday where people were basically denying what happened on Jan. 6. If you want to push a conservative message, the Biden administration just did you a favor.”

Heye describes himself as an ex-CNN’er on Twitter although he recently wrote an op-ed for the media outlet where he opined on U.S. House Rep Liz Cheney’s ouster from her leadership role that clearly had an anti-Trump slant.