Questions continue to come to President Mike Johnson about why he didn’t swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona. Johnson is showing more and more signs of cracking, For once, the mainstream press has taken hold of a certain Republican hypocrisy and is not letting go.
On ABC’s This Week, Jon Karl asked Johnson, “When are you going to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva?”
The speaker responded by trying to blame Chuck Schumer for his decision to keep the House closed: “As soon as we get back to the legislative session, when Chuck Schumer allows us to turn the lights back on.” »
Karl asked Johnson if he hadn’t already done so, and the speaker tried to blame Nancy Pelosi: “Because that’s how the institution works. By the way, I follow Pelosi’s precedent. When my dear friend from Louisiana, Julia Letlow, was elected to fill the seat of her husband who died of COVID, Nancy Pelosi took days to lend her oath. By the way…”
Karl asked, “Are you saying…let me stop you. Are you saying Nancy Pelosi refused to swear her oath in earlier?”
Johnson tried to change his story: “No, I’m saying — it’s — what I mean is it’s the normal process –“
Karl was willing to follow Johnson’s lead: “Because my understanding is that that was the date that Rep.-elect Letlow had requested at the time. That she obviously had — she — her –“
Keep reading and watch the video of Johnson’s new excuse for not swearing in Grijalva.