Liz Cheney Brutally Mocks Mike Johnson Joining The ‘I Cheated On My Wife With a Porn Star’ Fan Club
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), once the number three ranking House Republican, pulled no punches on Tuesday in lambasting her former colleague, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), for showing up at Donald Trump’s porn star hush money trial in New York City.
Johnson appeared 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.”
Parrotting much of 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.”
Johnson, however, notably 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.
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1790365490868846815
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.
Not all elected Republicans have shown total deference to Trump for his behavior surrounding the trial. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told The Hill this week that the sordid details of Trump’s trial are “painful and salacious” and remind him of the Clinton sex scandals of the 1990s.
