Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the House for a month because he thinks he can intimidate Democrats into passing his CR. Johnson is also stuck with an unpopular agenda and daily questions about why he still hasn’t sworn in a Democratic congresswoman-elect.
Johnson created a quagmire for himself on the orders of Donald Trump.
All of this is happening under Trump’s leadership.
President Johnson retreated into the fantasy that the No Kings protest would be violent and that the left would be more violent than the right.
Johnson’s daily press conferences have shifted from government shutdown to speaker. trying to turn the left as violent.
Last weekend, one in 1/6 criminals that Donald Trump had pardoned were stopped again for threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
During his press conference on Tuesday, which was supposed to be about the government shutdown, Johnson was asked: “Mr. President, going back to the threat to Hakeem Jeffries, he is one of several people who were pardoned in the wake of January 6th and have been re-arrested on various charges. Did President Trump make a mistake by simply offering a blanket pardon? For every person who was convicted as a result of that ? “
If you thought Mike Johnson would criticize Trump for pardoning all 1/6 criminals, you would be wrong.
You can read Johnson’s response below.