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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: HYPOCRACY

Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney


41 posted on 05/18/2024 9:21:36 PM PDT by tinamina (Remember when Biden said “we have developed the most sophisticated voting fraud system ever”? )
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To: curious7

It’s just like Mike Pence and Liz Cheney.

They couldn’t care less about Biden’s corruption, his tastes, his grabbing women, daily lies, and the $30 Million his family is sitting on from our enemies.


42 posted on 05/18/2024 9:28:36 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: gunnut

Up yours moron.


43 posted on 05/18/2024 9:30:13 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Drew68
Cheated on your wife with a porn star?...

This is a false accusation.

Clifford lied about the affair. Cohen paid off Clifford without telling Trump, then lied to get reimbursed for it by lying.

This was all known years ago.

44 posted on 05/18/2024 9:32:34 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇸 Trump 2024 🇺🇸)
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To: All

Jill Biden said Hunter didn’t do anything wrong and Ashley Biden wrote in her diary that Jill was basically a Psycho. She said she was incapable of love and refused to give her blankets when she was young.

Are any of the Trump attackers bothered by the inappropriate showers of Joe and his young daughter? Events that made her seek therapy 35 years later?


45 posted on 05/18/2024 9:33:44 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: Bullish

Yes I read the article. The title wasn’t House Republicans, it “some” Republicans and they mentioned those three and a bunch of unnamed Republicans. Must be nice to be so smart when you’re not.


46 posted on 05/19/2024 4:00:41 AM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States of America!)
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To: smokingfrog

“These Republicans... 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...”

All that to avoid having to say that “these Republicans” are craven, uniparty Trump-haters.

The porn star’s allegations can never be proven, and if taken as a basis for a judicial decision, every accusation from every woman afterwards will have to be accepted in a court of law.

And the accusations have not a thing to do with what the trial is about.


47 posted on 05/19/2024 4:52:49 AM PDT by odawg
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To: smokingfrog

But, the Speaker is presently leading the House.

The effort noted to oppose him falls under the heading of vinegar, sour grapes.


48 posted on 05/19/2024 5:03:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: GSWarrior

Democrat rags trying to masquerade as legitimate news outlets often make stuff up and then attribute it to “unnamed” or “confidential” sources.


49 posted on 05/19/2024 5:08:41 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: Bullish; gunnut

I agree with gunnut. If the unnamed House Republicans referenced in the article are in league with Romney, Murkowski and Cheney, then I don’t care what they have to say.


50 posted on 05/19/2024 5:34:28 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: HYPOCRACY

GMTA


51 posted on 05/19/2024 5:43:34 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: smokingfrog

“anonymous Republicans” = Democrats.


52 posted on 05/19/2024 5:54:13 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

There is no gag order preventing Trump from publicly defending himself or denying the charges against him. The gag order prevents him from publicly speaking about the jurors, witnesses, court staff, their families, or the families of the judge and DA.


53 posted on 05/19/2024 5:58:22 AM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: smokingfrog

Except that Trump is innocent. Trump says he never had an affair/sex, with that woman, Stormy Daniels.

Seriously, he denies it. I believe him. God knows.


54 posted on 05/19/2024 5:58:47 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: OakOak
Biden’s entire Presidency was supported and enabled by the Republicans.

Thanks for stating this plainly - it isn't said enough on FR. Without this self-serving entity known as the GOP, a Joe Biden could not exist.

55 posted on 05/19/2024 6:02:45 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: GSWarrior

I don’t read anything from the Hill these days because of their bias. This article is like the rest of their offerings that comes across fake. I don’t believe a word of it because no one wants to be “named”. But the unnamed people are “unsettled”. Yeah...right!


56 posted on 05/19/2024 6:12:49 AM PDT by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: smokingfrog

I don’t trust Mike Johnson with anything he appears like the perfect mole the way he deals with the democrats his front looks fake.


57 posted on 05/19/2024 7:55:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Kathy in OC

Yes, but Stephanie Clifford....aka “Stormy Daniels”...was one of the so-called “witnesses,” so President Trump was barred by the judge from speaking about her, her testimony and her claims.


58 posted on 05/19/2024 8:23:13 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Bullish

Are you a butt hurt RINO or a troll?


59 posted on 05/19/2024 9:13:33 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: smokingfrog
The illicit affair (if true) is not the issue in this case

It's certainly the issue of this stupid article, though. If the "affair" happened, his wife has forgiven him. God may have forgiven him too by now, in which case who am I to object? It's an 18-year-old dead horse. I just don't care about it, and no journalist, atheist, Democrat, or Never-Trumper can make me care about it.

60 posted on 05/19/2024 10:39:58 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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