Mike Johnson’s hypocrisy exposed with Hunter Biden’s question

Speaker Mike Johnson had to dodge a question about the Hunter Biden trial during an interview because it debunked his weaponization of the government narrative.

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Transcript courtesy of CNBC CEO Council Summit:

JAVERS: I want to ask you about the news of the day. We saw this historic conviction of former President Trump last week in New York. You called that a lawsuit against the banana republic. And I wonder if, as we watch the Hunter Biden trial unfold this week, is that also a trial against the banana republic?

JOHNSON: I haven’t had a chance to watch any of that yet. We shall see. I hope not. Look, I think what happened in Manhattan was a travesty. And I say that as a former trial attorney, someone who litigated high-profile cases in federal courts for 20 years. I don’t know – I – what happened there was unprecedented. The charges were, in my opinion, unlawful. They targeted a political opponent. They used the legal system to do this. The whole case is based on the testimony of a known perjurer, I mean the whole case. And it – regardless of how I feel about it or any of us, I’m telling you, the American people are angry about it. As of Saturday, I have spent the past six months traveling and organizing political events in 118 cities and 29 states. And everywhere I go, East Coast, West Coast, upstate New York, Deep South, it doesn’t matter, the sentiment is the same. People are losing confidence in our institutions because they see this. They see the politicization or weaponization of the legal system itself. And as a constitutional lawyer and someone who believes in our institutions and is trying to preserve the greatest nation in the history of the world, I’m really concerned about that perception. If you don’t have equal justice under the law, or if the people don’t believe that, you lose a very important element of what is necessary to maintain a system of government like ours, a constitutional republic. I think that’s the threat.

Video clip:

Mike Johnson Moderator: You called the Trump trial a “banana republic trial.” Is Hunter Biden’s trial also a trial against the banana republic?

Mike Johnson: I hope not. pic.twitter.com/TpTTwt6dDV

– Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 4, 2024

Speaker Johnson had to dodge the question because the prosecution of Hunter Biden does not fit the Republican Party’s claim that the president has weaponized the government against his political opponents. If President Biden were to arm the government, that same government would not prosecute his son.

Reality has exposed Speaker Johnson’s hypocrisy. It seems like Republicans only think government prosecutions are bad when Donald Trump is the person being prosecuted.

The position and hypocrisy would almost be foolish if the consequences were not so serious.

Mike Johnson attacked the justice system after Trump’s verdict, but he refused to answer when the defendant was Hunter Biden.

The only banana republic in American politics today is Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

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