Rep. Jim Jordan Gets Jabbed On Twitter After Screwing Up Basic U.S. History

Rep. Jim Jordan Gets Jabbed On Twitter After Screwing Up Basic U.S. History

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) received a history lesson on Twitter on Monday after making an incorrect claim about vaccines in the United States.

As doctors and public health officials struggle to encourage more people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the lawmaker tweeted: 

But many were quick to point out that vaccine mandates were so American that there might not have been an America without an early form of such a mandate. As PoliticFact previously noted, Gen. George Washington ordered his troops to be inoculated against smallpox in 1777 via a precursor to vaccination called variolation.