Speaker Mike Johnson needed to dodge a query in regards to the Hunter Biden trial throughout an interview as a result of it debunked his weaponization of presidency narrative.
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Transcript courtesy CNBC CEO Council Summit:
JAVERS: I wish to ask you a bit of bit about a number of the information of the day. We noticed this historic conviction of former President Trump final week in New York. You referred to as {that a} banana republic trial. And I’m wondering if, as we watch the Hunter Biden trial unfold this week, is that additionally a banana republic trial?
JOHNSON: I haven’t been capable of watch any of that but. We’ll see. I hope not. Look, I feel what occurred in Manhattan was a travesty. And I say that as a former litigator, any person who was in federal courts for 20 years litigating high-profile instances. I don’t — I — what occurred there was unprecedented. The costs have been illegitimate, for my part. They focused a political opponent. They used the judicial system to do it. Your entire case relies upon the testimony of a identified perjurer, I imply, the entire thing. And it — no matter how I really feel about it or any of us, I’m telling you, the American persons are upset about it. As of Saturday, I’ve traveled and performed political occasions in 118 cities and 29 states within the final six months. And in every single place I am going, East Coast, West Coast, Upstate New York, Deep South, it doesn’t matter, the sentiment is identical. Individuals are shedding their religion in our establishments as a result of they see this. They see the politicization or the weaponization of the judicial system itself. And as a constitutional legal professional and any person who believes in our establishments and is attempting to preserve the best nation within the historical past of the world, I’m actually involved about that notion. In case you don’t have equal justice beneath the legislation, or if the individuals don’t consider that you simply do, you lose a vital ingredient of what’s essential to keep up a system of presidency like ours, a constitutional republic. I feel that’s the risk.
Video clip:
Moderator to Mike Johnson: You referred to as Trump’s trial a “banana republic trial.” Is Hunter Biden’s trial additionally a banana republic trial?
Mike Johnson: I hope not. pic.twitter.com/TpTTwt6dDV
â Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 4, 2024
Speaker Johnson needed to dodge the query as a result of the prosecution of Hunter Biden doesn’t match the Republican Social gathering’s declare that the President has weaponized the federal government towards his political opponents. If President Biden weaponized the federal government, that very same authorities wouldn’t be prosecuting his son.
Actuality uncovered the hypocrisy of Speaker Johnson. It appears that evidently Republicans solely assume that authorities prosecutions are unhealthy when Donald Trump is the individual being prosecuted.
The place and hypocrisy could be bordering on foolish if the implications weren’t so severe.
Mike Johnson attacked the judicial system after the Trump verdict, however he refused to reply when the defendant was Hunter Biden.
The one banana republic in American politics at present is Donald Trump’s Republican Social gathering.
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