House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded on Sunday to a report by The Daily Beast that highlighted his apparent lack of a bank account on his financial disclosure.
The response, however, did not actually answer whether he had one.
Fox News Sunday moderator Shannon Bream pressed Johnson on whether he had a bank account, citing a Vanity Fair write-up of The Daily Beast’s report and noting that “there’s been so much made about it.”
“Can you clear that up for us?” Bream asked.
Johnson did not.
“Look, I’m a man of modest means,” Johnson said. “I was a lawyer, but I did constitutional law, and most of my career has been in the nonprofit sector. We have four kids, five now, that are very active. And I have kids in graduate school, law school, undergraduate. We have a lot of expenses, but I can relate to everybody else. My father was a firefighter, right? I didn’t grow up with great means. But I think that helps us to be a better leader because we can relate to every hard-working American family. That’s who we are. And I think it governs and helps govern my decisions and how I lead.”
This guy has three kids and college and no fucking bank accounts… Dude, is this guy congress Clarence Thomas? Fuck, it feels like these people are all body snatchers!
We have four kids, five now, that are very active.
Talk about a real-time update. “OH, THIS JUST IN, SHE’S POPPED OUT ANOTHER ONE!” Or did he just briefly forget about the black one?
Forgot to round up
We have four kids, five now, that are very active.
Talk about a real-time update. “OH, THIS JUST IN, SHE’S POPPED OUT ANOTHER ONE!”
To be fair, he was probably thinking about the children that he has to spend real money on, and not the young/newborn(?) one who’s expenses are very modest at this point in comparison.
His creepy affect and smirk just exudes ‘hiding a kiddie porn dungeon’ vibes.
We have four kids, five now,
What? If that adopted son is real, I feel so bad for him. My guess is, he was so used to lying about everything that he didn’t think this would ever come back to haunt him. Or is he saying he just hired the actor to play the son?
Yep. It’s required for accounts totalling more than $5000, because a poor politician is easier to buy off than a rich one.
So unless he’s flat broke (unlikely for a Republican), he’s hiding assets.
a poor politician is easier to buy off than a rich one.
Nice thought but probably not true. See literally any US politician. Or Supreme Court judge.
“A man with a lot of Ivory is less likely to be an Ivory hunter than a man with no Ivory!”
Holy shit, just answer the question, Mike
Right? That was the most unpracticed “talk until they go away” I’ve ever read.
It’s a simple question and the criminal didn’t answer it
It is amazing how all the verbal tricks and rhetoric don’t work when it is written out.
Somehow I’m getting two-three texts every day from this scumbag, though I’ve never voted conservative or signed any conservative petitions.
Different number every time, so I can’t block them.
Help.
If you opt out and still get texts, you can probably file a complaint with the FCC or some federal agency.
Any email given to any government agency becomes public and purchasable by third parties.
I’m not really sure why this matters. Is really just about him not disclosing something? Because I really don’t care if he has a bank account it not.
This seems like a distraction from real issues.
Blatant in your face corruption in the House isn’t a real issue? Umm, ok then.
