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Johnson’s Trump trip unsettles some Republicans: ‘Tell me this isn’t so’
The Hill ^ | 05/28/2023 | MYCHAEL SCHNELL, MIKE LILLIS

Posted on 05/18/2024 6:15:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with a porn star.

These Republicans, who requested to speak anonymously to discuss the sensitive topic, are accusing Johnson — a devout Southern Baptist who built a career around the fight for Christian values and moral conservatism — of undermining the party’s family values image simply to ingratiate himself with Trump, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

The illicit affair (if true) is not the issue in this case.


2 posted on 05/18/2024 6:18:28 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Slow news day at The Hill.


3 posted on 05/18/2024 6:18:52 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“ These Republicans, who requested to speak anonymously”

Larry Moe Curly


4 posted on 05/18/2024 6:23:25 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NWFree

Perhaps soon they will be unjustly subjected to Democrat lawfare and no one will come to their defense and support them.


5 posted on 05/18/2024 6:25:50 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our PDJT, The GOAT, needs to find ways to get stuff done with the people who are gonna be there.

The Pubes voted for Johnson. The Majority has to make deals with the DRats.

Won’t be easy.


6 posted on 05/18/2024 6:27:10 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
We abandoned the "family values" stuff when we chose Trump as our standard-bearer eight years ago.

The issues at stake these days are far greater. Cheated on your wife with a porn star? Not my problem. Don't care.

7 posted on 05/18/2024 6:27:11 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: smokingfrog

Sorry but if you can’t give more than “some republicans” I call complete BS. If they are in company few RINOs that are identified in the article (Romney, Cheney and Murkowski) then who the heck cares?


8 posted on 05/18/2024 6:34:08 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: smokingfrog

Some republicans = Pierre Delecto.


9 posted on 05/18/2024 6:34:15 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Drew68

Not a good idea to wrestle a pig but sometimes you have to get in the mud with them.


10 posted on 05/18/2024 6:36:03 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: smokingfrog

Romney, Murkowski, and Cheney. Those paragons of virtue.

Apparently, as long as the charge is about - gasp! - supposed consensual sex, Christians are not supposed to defend the wrongly accused.

Of course Cheney would be in on that. She’s so “Christian” that she buried evidence so that grannies could be thrown in jail for carrying a flag through the US Capitol.

These people may tithe their mint and cumin, but they have no concept of the idea of justice, or of just how repulsive their ass-covering games are to the Lord of Heaven.

I stand in awe that He has not yet shredded us for what this country has become. I pray He intervenes, to save us from the wickedness all over the place.


11 posted on 05/18/2024 6:36:07 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Drew68

Hear, Hear!


12 posted on 05/18/2024 6:38:55 PM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: butterdezillion

Amen


13 posted on 05/18/2024 6:41:42 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: smokingfrog

I’ll save everyone the read. It’s Romney, Murkowski and Cheney along with a few “unnamed” Republicans.


14 posted on 05/18/2024 6:42:17 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States of America!)
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To: smokingfrog

Correct. This case is bogus, dishonest, and unjust. It is hardly Christian to support such a case - and standing against it does not mean you support any alleged relationship between Trump and Stormy Daniels.


15 posted on 05/18/2024 6:43:26 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: usafa92

George Conway and the Lincoln Project “Republicans” probably as well.


16 posted on 05/18/2024 6:44:26 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: smokingfrog

Screw any Republican that doesn’t understand what’s going on here. I’d like to know their names.


17 posted on 05/18/2024 6:50:16 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: GSWarrior

If Johnson was trying to ingratiate himself with Trump by speaking outside the courthouse, Johnson did a pretty bad job of it. His reading of prepared remarks was terrible. It almost seemed like he was trying to send a secret message that someone was forcing him to read it. He looked down at notes every few words. He didn’t even phrase things properly, as if he had not even read it before.


18 posted on 05/18/2024 6:53:15 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: gunnut

What the heck? You do know that Romney and Murkowski are in the Senate not the house, right? And Cheney lost her seat last cycle and is now a complete nobody?

Try to keep up.


19 posted on 05/18/2024 6:54:18 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Romney’s not a ‘house republican’, ya know?


20 posted on 05/18/2024 6:55:52 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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