'We Have Reached A New Low': Mike Johnson Drops The Hammer On Dems After Trump Conviction In NYC

6 months ago

At a House Republican press briefing on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was asked about the conviction of former President Trump.

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00:00 in the country right now and I've been traveling extensively around the country.

00:04 I was out this past week in the Rust Belt and I was in states like Ohio and

00:09 Michigan and Wisconsin and Illinois and when the verdict came down against

00:15 President Trump there was something palpable that happened around the

00:18 country and I don't know if you sensed it where you were and among the groups

00:20 where you were over the last week but people realize that we have reached a

00:25 new low and when you have activist prosecutors and the Democratic Party who

00:30 are so desperate because of the presidential campaign and the way it's

00:33 going they understand that Donald Trump though all the polling shows is crushing

00:37 Joe Biden they're in they're in panic mode on the Democratic side and they are

00:41 so desperate to stop Donald Trump he's winning in the swing states he's winning

00:45 among the people he's winning among new demographics that have never voted

00:49 Republican before they see this happening and they're so desperate to

00:53 stop him that they are willing to use the judicial system to do so it is a new

00:58 low and it's a dangerous one because what they're doing is they're eroding

01:02 the people's faith in our system of justice itself as leader Scalise said

01:06 people have to believe that justice is blind you have to believe that there is

01:10 equal justice under the law in order to maintain a constitutional republic this

01:14 goes to the very core of who we are the foundation of who we are as a nation and

01:17 that's why it's bigger than just President Trump it's bigger than just

01:22 these cases it's about our system itself and because of that there is a backlash

01:28 President Trump hit a fundraising record the day after within 24 hours of the

01:32 verdict we did as well on our fundraising platforms we raised record

01:38 amounts of money because people understand what's at stake now this is

01:41 not just a contest between two individuals for president it's now about

01:45 whether we're going to defend the integrity of our system itself and we're

01:48 going to do everything we can everything within our scope of our responsibility

01:52 in the Congress to address it appropriately and I announced this

01:55 morning to our conference we're working on a three-pronged approach you heard

01:59 leader Scalise and others reference it today but we're looking at various

02:04 approaches to what can be done here through the appropriations process

02:07 through the legislative process through through bills that will be advancing

02:12 through our committees and put it on the floor for passage and also through

02:15 oversight all those things will be happening happening vigorously because

02:19 we have to do that because the stakes are too high and because people are

02:22 losing faith in our institutions and that at the end of the day is something

02:26 that should concern every single one of us and I think it does

'We Have Reached A New Low': Mike Johnson Drops The Hammer On Dems After Trump Conviction In NYC

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