Reposting a comment of mine since we are talking about Jim Jordan:

I think he is Trump's guy and probably still is.

Been thinking about all of this in-depth. I think Trump instructed Jordan, MTG, and many others within the Freedom Caucus and GOP to hold back against McCarthy because he still needed plenty of leverage against the Swamp in the House. And for this, their reputations within the GOP and outside GAW/Truth Social needs to be relatively intact.

Gaetz, regardless what you think of him, is a marked man, one's whose reputation is relatively shaky and his political future is unstable. This also makes him the perfect candidate to be a political assassin serving Trump, one who is local to Trump, capable of doing what is needed to be done, and, most importantly of all, is completely expendable in the grand scheme of Trump's chess board, and in comparison to everyone else. What happened earlier this week is, figuratively, him walking up to McCarthy, pulling out the gun that is laying around in the open (the vacate rule), pointing it at McCarthy, and pulling the trigger. The result is a politically-dead McCarthy, paving a way for one of Trump's allies to sweep in and take the seat.

It also means that Gaetz's political survival (and that of his accomplices) is uncertain at best, shot to Hell at worst. However, they have played their part and their role in the plan is done for the foreseeable future. It also might mean that the assassination weapon's purpose is done and it needs to be put away before it shoots someone Trump can't afford to lose.

So, I think Jordan and other's refusal to vacate McCarthy could be him being a RINO, but we could not rule out it being political pragmatism by Trump to make sure he still have a substantial group of reliable political allies within a Swampy Congress...