Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who was once the number three ranking House Republican recently took shots at her former colleague, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), for showing up at former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York City via Mediaite.
Johnson has made an appearance at the courthouse to support Trump, as a parade of elected Republicans has been doing this week, and told reporters outside that “It’s impossible for anybody to deny, that looks at this objectively, that the judicial system in our country has been weaponized against President Trump.”
After reiterating Trump’s own rhetoric, Johnson added, “The system is using all the tools at its disposal right now to punish one president to provide cover for another. These are politically motivated trials and they are a disgrace. It is election interference, and they show how desperate, the opposition that President Trump has, how desperate they truly are.”
However, Johnson did not address the facts of the case, which are largely not in dispute – that Trump paid several hundred thousand dollars during an election year to cover-up past affairs. Cheney took Johnson, a devout evangelical Christian, took task over this element of his support for Trump, writing:
Have to admit I’m surprised that @SpeakerJohnson wants to be in the “I cheated on my wife with a porn star” club. I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.
It has been noted that Johnson has made headlines for his staunch social conservatism, which include taking his “then-teenage daughter at a ‘purity ball,’ where his daughter vowed to him to live a life of purity and signed a pledge to abstain from sex until marriage.” Johnson also spoke publicly about making a pact with his son to monitor each other’s electronic devices for pornography.
