Mike Johnson Panics as Trump Screws Him

Believe it or not, not too long ago, to be the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was to be one of the very most powerful people in the country, the most powerful person, the highest ranking person in the most important and powerful branch, the legislature. Unfortunately, you might not know that now because the current Speaker of the House is this guy, Mike Johnson, who's an obsequious toady who has sacrificed all of his power and dignity on the altar of Donald Trump, the President of the United States. He conducted a press conference earlier this morning. It was a spectacular failure as he was confronted on a number of issues that he had atrocious answers for, ranging from gerrymandering to the ballroom to Donald Trump's lack of empathy for the American people and everything in between. And we have to talk about it. But before we do, if you end up liking this video and you want to support the channel, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe and alert bells before you go. All right, folks, some of the clips I was going to show you will be kept for separate videos because they're about discrete topics that merit their own videos. But I want to give you a smattering of what Mike Johnson did this morning at his disastrous presser with Trump's approval rating in the toilet. And despite all the gerrymandering in the world, the Republicans still favored to lose the House, if not the Senate. With that in mind, let's jump right on into this. Mike Johnson being asked a very uncomfortable question about a really stupid politically dangerous thing that Trump said yesterday. Yes, ma'am. I don't know the context in which he made that comment, but I can tell you the president thinks about Americans financial situations. I talk to him on average twice a day, sometimes three or four times a day, and we talk about it constantly. He's laser focused on trying to resolve the because if we get the Strait of Hormuz, when we get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, that will alleviate a lot of pressure with gas prices and other things in the economy. He started that conflict. So you're saying he's laser focused on resolving a conflict that he started. That doesn't make much sense at all. But again, what Johnson defaults to at the beginning when he gets uncomfortable as well, I don't know about the comment. I haven't heard the context. So I want to remind you about that comment and the context right here. When you're negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are American financial situations motivating you to make a deal? Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. Not even a little bit. He doesn't care about the American people's pain and suffering and hardship. It's not his problem. It's really not has nothing to do with it. Very clear, concise, no unnecessary interpretation, a black and white analysis. As Midas Touch notes, Mike Johnson, I didn't hear it. I don't know the context. Which one? Which one? This is the dilemma that Mike Johnson always faces when confronted by really stupid, dangerous things Donald Trump has said. I just want to, before we play some other clips, just look at the reaction here. I always look for these opportunities to bring back Mike Johnson's greatest hits reel. This is from Blue Vanguard. So let's hear a bit. Let's see if the greatest hits of Mike Johnson. How comfortable are you with the president apparently seeking $230 million from the Department of Justice? I don't know the details about that. I've just read it. I don't know. I've never seen the Epstein evidence. It wasn't in my lane. I don't know anything about the mean point thing. I don't know. I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, as you know. I'm not following all the turns of the guitar jet. I haven't looked into the details of the RSC budget. There's lots of nuances. That's the first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it. And it goes on like this for another minute. I just saw the reminder. It's courtesy of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. They put that compilation compilation together. Chidi's saying, Mike, I know nothing, Johnson, every time Trump is saying anything. And it's screengab from a Sandra Bullock movie from a couple of years ago. It's a horror film on Netflix, but the name of it escapes me, where she's blindfolded because it's the only way you guys can survive. Let's see. This guy's never aware of anything, gets paid a lofty salary. How many of us could be aware of nothing at our jobs and be a top earner? I'd say few to none. So just stunning, stunning stuff. But that's not all, right? Again, Mike Johnson is rightly catching flack for this as well. He should. Again, like clockwork, of course, Mike Johnson doesn't know about Trump saying he doesn't care about Americans' financial situations. Joe from JERS, liberal commentator on Twitter, says these ******* cowards. Cowards, says Republicans against Trump. House Majority PAC, Mike, quote, I don't know the context, Johnson. Democratic Congressman Greg Cazares says, Mike Johnson, the context is you made gas cost $4.50 per gallon. Sarah Ironside saying there's no context in which saying you don't care about Americans' financial situation can be seen as anything other than a callous disregard for the people in this country who are struggling. Democratic Congresswoman Chantelle Brown says, grow a spine. You don't need any context from a statement like that. He said what he said. He doesn't care that working Americans are struggling to stay afloat in his economy. Jeff Timmer says the context was you ain't gonna be speaker after the November midterms. Hemet Mata says this guy gets instant alerts when his adult son visits an adult website, but he needs a dissertation to understand Trump not giving a damn about Americans, and so on and so forth. Again, he's getting humiliated here. And by the way, I should tell you before we go on to the next clip that we will have a separate video. About other Republicans getting asked about this question because it's truly stunning. Now, I wanna play this other clip here because Mike Johnson has asked about another scandal, another blatant, egregious demonstration of the Trump administration's corruption, the unprecedented corruption of the Trump administration. We're gonna play the clip where Mike Johnson has asked about it, and then I'm gonna give you some information. It all works out. Speaker Johnson, do you think that the Justice Department ought to settle the President's $10 billion lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns? Is that appropriate? Is there a conflict of interest there? One of the things that is not in my purview is the Department of Justice, okay, and how they evaluate cases and resolution of all that. So I don't know. I haven't thought about that or read into it. I get enough to say grace over every day, okay? So go ask the executive branch about it, all right? Again, same example, right? He just says, I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. What? Who? Who? What's the DOJ? What's the Justice Department? I don't know what that is. I'm only the highest-ranking official in the first and most important and most powerful branch, the legislature, which is constitutionally obligated to exercise oversight of the executive branch, which includes the Justice Department. So we're gonna look at the reaction to this in just a moment, but what the question pertains to, and we talked about this when the story broke months ago, but there's a new update on it. So Donald Trump is suing the IRS and the Justice Department for all sorts of things in his private capacity as president. So for example, let's take a look at this. Justice Department officials consider settling Trump's suit against IRS. One of the settlement terms under review is for the IRS to drop any audits of the president, his family, and his businesses. The Justice Department is holding internal discussions about settling Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in the coming days, according to three people familiar with the deliberations, a move that could involve the government directly, providing taxpayer funds or another public benefit to the president. Whether to settle the suit and on what terms remains up in the air. One of the settlement options the Justice Department and White House officials are reviewing is the possibility of the IRS dropping any audits of Trump, his family members, or businesses, according to of the people. Dropping audits, perfectly valid, legitimate audits into Donald Trump and his family. Not just Trump, the sitting president, but his family, who are not supposed to hold any position of power or privilege in this country. They just happen to be related to the president. Yeah, listen, maybe you can just stop looking into us. Maybe you can just give us a blank check. Let's just do whatever we want. That's my family and my businesses. In January, Trump, along with two of his sons in the Trump family business, sued the IRS for at least $10 billion over the leak of tax returns during Trump's first term. $10 billion, not $10,000, not $100,000, not $10 million, $10 b-b-b-b-billion. And the Justice Department, which answers to Trump, is considering either giving him that $10 billion of your taxpayer dollars, your loved one's dollars, yours, yours, yours, yours, yours, or just giving him a blank check to commit crimes with impunity. Folks, that's where we are. The corruption of the Trump administration a year and a half in is just, again, it's unprecedented. It's historic. And Mike Johnson, who is supposed to be one of the most powerful people in this country, and not an employee of the president, and I cannot stress this enough, Mike Johnson literally doesn't work for the president. The president is the head of the executive branch. Mike Johnson is the Speaker of the House in the legislative branch. All those people on stage, Lisa McClain and Steve Scalise there, they are less powerful than Donald Trump or the sitting president. They belong to the same party as Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the head of their party, and certainly Donald Trump can hurt them politically. But in terms of formal authority, they are not at-will employees of the president. They are not even for-cause employees of the president. Trump can do nothing to fire Mike Johnson, at least in terms of exercising government power. And yet they behave like obsequious toadies who work at Mar-a-Lago, like they serve him in his personal capacity, that they are servants of him. And that means that a major, perhaps the biggest check against Trump corruption, which is supposed to be the legislature, since obviously the Supreme Court has decided to give Trump sweeping immunity, the only major check we have left is the legislature. Mike Johnson is abdicating his role. I don't know anything about that. I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't heard about that. I have nothing to do with the DOJ. You got to go to the executive branch. I don't know anything about Trump saying that he doesn't give a damn about the American people's financial hardship. That's not my problem. It's stunning. It really is. And they are going to continue, Trump and his family and his businesses and his corrupt administration are continue to benefit from this as long as people like Mike Johnson are in a position to just stand aside and either let them do whatever the hell they want or actively facilitate it. And this is another reason why we need to make sure that Mike Johnson does not remain speaker by voting him out in the November midterms, make Hakeem Jeffries or a Democrat the speaker of the house. Again, people commenting on this. We all know what's going to happen. Trump will take two, two and a half billion dollars in the DOJ. He'll say he's a hero and he saved the American people 7.5 billion because he loves America so much. In other words, somebody saying he sued him for 10, he's only going to take two and a half and he's going to say, I saved you seven and a half. Mike Johnson would rather think he's the stupidest, least aware speaker in American history than admit that Trump is an immoral, shady piece of ----. He's such a spineless coward. Again, other people rightly mocking him for it. He's such a bitch, someone says. I don't know, has become a standard answer in the orange administration. Outside Thomas Massey and maybe Rand Paul, not one of these GOP invertebrates will say a critical word about the Treasury Department cutting Trump a multibillion dollar check to put in his pocket. Yeah, there you go. He's just getting savages here as well. He should. But there you have it, folks, staggering corruption, staggering indifference from Donald Trump in the Trump administration. And Republican speaker Mike Johnson is just, again, sidestepping and allowing them to do whatever the hell they want. In the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments.