Wife of man who carried gun into anti-Trump rally says special prosecutor’s account of her role ‘absolutely untrue’

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Jessica Jordan, who was riding in the passenger seat the day her husband retrieved a gun from his truck during a confrontation with demonstrators at an April 2025 “Hands Off” rally near the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, asked a judge to dismiss charges against her Friday, saying she’d done nothing wrong.

Jordan, the first to appear in court of three people facing misdemeanor charges filed more than a year after the incident, told the judge that the account of her role laid out by a special prosecutor was “absolutely untrue.”

“I cannot lose my job over something I didn’t do,” Jordan said during an initial hearing Friday morning in Tippecanoe Superior Court 4.

In images taken from witness video from the corner of Columbia and Third streets, Jessica Jordan is seen talking with and filming demonstrators at a ‘Hands Off’ rally and later pointing her husband, James Jordan, back to the truck after he walked through crowds with a gun.

Superior Court 4 Judge Matt Sandy denied her motion to dismiss a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, which carries a potential penalty of up to 180 days in jail and fines of up to $1,000. Sandy set a jury trial for Sept. 9 and told Jordan, who was representing herself, to discuss matters with a pair of Lake County deputy prosecutors who made the drive to Lafayette for Friday’s hearing.