Republican leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep supporting Donald Trump and his violent speeches.
Trump has only one playbook. We’ve seen the calamity that he created after he lost in 2020. We saw Republicans denounce him for the violence and mayhem of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection before they came crawling back to him.
And now Trump and his Republican allies are running the same plays. The latest U.S. House speaker, who tried to disenfranchise millions of voters in an attempt to help Trump overturn the 2020 election, now wants a valid jury verdict thrown out. And Trump is priming his supporters for future violence.
Republicans are working against the justice system out in the open
Consider House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican who denounced the Capitol attack in 2021 as “shameful violence” in a statement that curiously no longer appears on his congressional website.
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