Johnson Vows to Protect Jack Smith Hours After Democrats Save His Speakership

Breitbart ^ | 05.09.2024 | BRADLEY JAYE

[ChicagoConservative27]

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wasted little time after 163 Democrats voted to save his speakership to announce he would not use Congress’s constitutional power of the purse to stop special counsel Jack Smith’s “lawfare” against Donald Trump.

The Speaker, in some of his earliest public comments after Democrats saved his gavel, refused to make any attempt to defund Smith’s office as it continues its prosecutions of Trump.

“That’s not something you wave a wand and just eliminate the special counsel as a provision,” Johnson told Politico. “There is a necessity for a function like that, because sometimes the Department of Justice — which is an executive branch agency — can’t necessarily, without a conflict of interest, investigate or prosecute the president who’s their boss, or the president’s family.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

No comment. I am too livid

[Reno89519]

And Trump made a perfect pick once again. /s

[glorgau]

Smith is defeated anyway.

[RoosterRedux]

So you are a Biden supporter?

[pepsi_junkie]

the Department of Justice — which is an executive branch agency — can’t necessarily, without a conflict of interest, investigate or prosecute the president who’s their boss, or the president’s family.”

Hey Mike, when you call for a special counsel to investigate joe and hunter biden I'll believe your BS. Sounds to me like his virtue only applies to Trump.

[Sacajaweau]

It would still go on even without funding...and if Smith is owed any money, it would simply be retroactive. Let it play out....Smith is in deep sh**.

[nikos1121]

Smith was illegally appointed.

Gauls me that no one in this party fights for Trump

[Sacajaweau]

He’s telling everyone that the “purse” is not what keeps it going.

[House Atreides]

Well, to be fair, Jack Smith is doing a perfectly capable job of destroying himself and needs no help to do that. Let him continue to self destruct.

[Reno89519]

How do you get that when Trump has defended Johnson yet now gets immediately stabbed in the back? This is just one more bad pick by Trump.

[Skywise]

Maybe - I’m trying to figure out if the GOP was trying to revoke the special counsel powers of the JD, IN GENERAL and he’s against that.

Still seems to me they could kill all special counsel funding for the time being…

[Beowulf]

Weasel comes to mind.

[LegendHasIt]

And yet so many ‘on our side’ are complaining about MTG being ‘a stupid attention whore’ and saying that she should be kicked out of Congress for ‘rocking the boat’.

[BigFreakinToad]

Johnson proves where his loyalties lay.

[Shady]

There are no words. We had a Coup d’ etat and we are being ruled by a Junta.

[chopperk]

Maybe Mike sold out to Hak’em and the Dems, What price?

[HIDEK6]

Gall. A Gaul is a Frenchman.

[marktwain]

Tilting at windmills is not a wise policy.

The potential of defunding Smith, until we have significantly more than a 1 vote majority, is nil.

[CatOwner]

Well, to be fair, Jack Smith is doing a perfectly capable job of destroying himself and needs no help to do that. Let him continue to self destruct.

I'm not convinced Smith is going to lose in that court, no matter how much destruction Freepers think he has inflicted upon himself.

[pollywog]

No comment. I am too livid

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DITTO!!!!!!!!