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