‘How Pathetic!’ Jim McGovern Nukes Mike Johnson For Acting Like a Staffer For Donald Trump
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) nuked House Republicans for going to Donald Trump’s porn star hush money trial during a barn burner of a speech on Wednesday.
“It’s probably not the best idea to take direction on law and order from a guy who, as we speak, is a defendant for covering up hush money payments to a porn star for political gain,” McGovern began, adding:
That’s not even to mention the other three criminal felony prosecutions that he’s facing. And look at the cover of today’s New York Times, Mr. Speaker. This is unbelievable. Here’s a picture of the speaker of this House of Representatives. Second in line to the presidency, standing in front of a courthouse, acting as a prop for Donald Trump, trying to interfere with a criminal trial. Because apparently, Republicans like law and order unless it applies to them.
Unbelievable. You can’t make this stuff up. And this stunt, I’ll say to my colleagues, this stunt that the speaker and members of the Republican and Republican members of Congress going to this courthouse, this stunt diminishes this House of Representatives. Their candidate for president has been indicted more times than he’s been elected.
The chair then interjected asking McGovern to “Please refrain from engaging in personalities towards presumptive nominees for the office of president.”
McGovern continued, saying, “I didn’t think I was. And somehow, Madam Speaker, they have the nerve to tell us about the criminal justice system. Give me a break. Their credibility on this issue has evaporated. It is pathetic.”
“And all I can say, Madam Speaker, is the American people deserve better, and they certainly deserve better than the speaker of the House spending his time trying to influence our justice system at a courthouse in New York City,” McGovern raged on, concluding:
How pathetic! When we have real problems that we need to deal with here in this country, he’s in New York trying to explain away like a staffer, all of Donald Trump’s problems. Quite frankly, I’m trying to think of a way to stay within order here, with the new rules. It’s pathetic. It’s pathetic. That’s where this that’s what. That’s where the speaker of the House is spending his time trying to rationalize all of the former president’s crimes. Give me a break. Madam speaker, the American people, as I said, deserve better. I urge a strong no vote on this rule. This is this is just a waste of time. And with that, I yield back the balance of my time.
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