Speaker Mike Johnson Defends Trump’s Business ‘Transparency’ — Seconds Before Admitting He ‘Knows Nothing’ About Trump Memecoin
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) was confronted Wednesday about President Donald Trump’s private business dealings while serving in the White House and was quick to bring up the “Biden Crime family” while praising Trump for his openness and transparency.
During his weekly press conference, Johnson was asked about Trump’s behavior in the context of that of the Biden family, of which he and his fellow Republicans were very critical.
“Speaker, you were very critical of President Biden and his family’s foreign business dealings. You supported an impeachment inquiry as a result of it,” observed an unidentified reporter. “Are you equally concerned about President Trump’s family’s business dealers, especially given the fact that he is in a region now where his family has billions of dollars in investments in Doha and Saudi Arabia, and the fact he has a crypto business now where he’s auctioned off access to the White House for the highest bidder in his memecoin?”
“Look, there are authorities that the police executive branch ethics rules — I’m not an expert in that, my expertise here in the House, okay?” replied Johnson.
“I’ll say that the reason they were many people refer to the Bidens as the ‘Biden Crime Family’ is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains but in the back rooms they were trying to conceal it and they repeatedly lied about it in the set up shell companies and the family was all engaged in getting all on the dole,” he continued. “Whatever President Trump is doing is out in the open, and they’re not trying to conceal anything.”
“Mr. Speaker, the investment in the memecoin, those folks are not transparent,” the intrepid reporter pressed. “We do not know who those people are.”
“I don’t know anything about the memecoin thing,” Johnson exasperated. “I don’t know, but I can just tell you that, I mean, President Trump has nothing to hide. He’s very upfront about it, and there are people who watch all the ethics of that, but I mean, I’ve got to be concerned with running the House Representatives; that’s what I do.”
“But isn’t this oversight, though?” the reporter pressed. “That’s the congressional responsibility.”
“Congress has oversight responsibility, but so far as I know, the ethics are all being followed,” replied Johnson before moving on.
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