Johnson’s Trump trip unsettles some Republicans: ‘Tell me this isn’t so’
by Mychael Schnell and Mike Lillis - 05/18/24 6:00 AM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with a porn star.
These Republicans, who requested to speak anonymously to discuss the sensitive topic, are accusing Johnson — a devout Southern Baptist who built a career around the fight for Christian values and moral conservatism — of undermining the party’s family values image simply to ingratiate himself with Trump, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
“It’s clear that Johnson thinks that this is to his political advantage to be at the courthouse at the most salacious bits of detailed, pornographic testimony. I think he’s got to answer for that,” one House Republican told The Hill.
“It seems like an odd place for him to be given what he has said.”
In one sense, there’s little surprise in Johnson’s visit to New York this week.
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