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Eugene

(65,167 posts)
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:52 PM May 14

Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Defense of Trump's Open Corruption ( "I'm not an expert in that [ethics]..." )

Source: The New Republic

Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Defense of Trump’s Open Corruption

Edith Olmsted
Wed, May 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM EDT 2 min read

House Speaker Mike Johnson offered a baffling defense Wednesday for Donald Trump’s blatant corruption schemes, seeming to forget entirely about so-called congressional oversight.

During a press conference, Johnson was asked whether he was at all concerned about the Trump family’s foreign business dealings, in light of the president’s trip to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week, where his family has made billions in investments, as well as Trump’s contentious plan to throw an “intimate dinner” for the top holders of his meme coin.

“Look, there are authorities that—police, executive branch, ethics rules—I’m not an expert in that. My expertise is in the House,” Johnson said.

“I’ll say that the reason many people refer to the Bidens as the ‘Biden crime family’ is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains, but in the back rooms; they were trying to conceal it, and they repeatedly lied about it, and they set up shell companies, and the family was all engaged in getting all on the dole,” Johnson said. “Whatever the President Trump is doing is out in the open, they’re not trying to conceal anything.”

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-bonkers-defense-trump-190747331.html

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Bribe taking is okay if it's done openly and proudly. Misconduct we can't find any evidence of is not okay.

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Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Defense of Trump's Open Corruption ( "I'm not an expert in that [ethics]..." ) (Original Post) Eugene May 14 OP
Clearly thinks the corruption is OK since it's out in the open vapor2 May 14 #1
He thinks WWJD means what would Judas do? jls4561 May 14 #2
Little Mikey has always been a turd pfitz59 May 14 #3
Little Mikey should have been B.See May 14 #4
Where's the fucking beef, Mike? Redleg May 15 #5

jls4561

(2,357 posts)
2. He thinks WWJD means what would Judas do?
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:56 PM
May 14

Thirty pieces of silver would’ve bought the equivalent of a 747 in Biblical times.

B.See

(5,488 posts)
4. Little Mikey should have been
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:46 PM
May 14

locked the FK UP, along with the other 147 Congressional Insurrectionists who voted to overturn the election of 2020.

Redleg

(6,503 posts)
5. Where's the fucking beef, Mike?
Thu May 15, 2025, 12:39 PM
May 15

They have asserted that there is deep and broad corruption in "The Biden Crime Family" but have yet to produce any legitimate evidence of it, after years of looking for it. At the same time, there is credible evidence of Trump's crimes, including federal indictments and state indictments, and the plea deals taken by several of Trump's officials or those working on his behalf.

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