Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested this week that House Speaker Mike Johnson’s newfound support for supplying Ukraine with more aid comes from him “being blackmailed.”
Speaking with Tucker Carlson, Greene responded to reports that Johnson has been quietly working with the White House to put together yet another giant aid package for Ukraine.
Ep. 88 Is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson being blackmailed to do the bidding of the left? It certainly seems that way. His colleague, Marjorie Taylor Greene, explains pic.twitter.com/r60v1XQusY
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 3, 2024
“Now Mike Johnson has made a complete departure of who he is and what he stands for, to the point where people are literally asking is he being blackmailed — what is wrong with him — because he’s completely disconnected with what we want,” she began.
Carlson then asked the congresswoman if she thinks he is indeed being blackmailed. In response, Greene listed numerous examples of Johnson selling out his ostensible conservative principles.
For example, the congresswoman noted how Johnson had championed the recently passed omnibus bill despite the bill propping up a number of Democrat agenda items.
“So Mike Johnson is pro-life, and the second part of the omnibus [passed] just less than two weeks ago funded full term abortion clinics,” she noted. “He [also] funded the transgender agenda on children. I mean, how does that even happen from a Christian conservative Republican speaker?”
Good question.
“He did nothing for the southern border, did nothing to secure the border,” she continued. “And this comes on the heels of Laken Riley being brutally murdered.”
“This came on the heels of a video that was running on loop on social media, where illegal aliens had rushed our border, ran over Texas National Guard, ran over Border Patrol agents in order to invade our country. These were military age men, by the way. He did nothing to secure our border. It’s the number one issue in the world,” she added.
She meant this video:
Texas has arrested an additional 70 illegals on rioting charges in connection with this March 21 assault at the US southern border in El Paso.
Authorities confiscated knives and shanks from some of the illegals involved in the riot.
Multiple soldiers were unfortunately injured. pic.twitter.com/m5qjSZswlP
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) March 29, 2024
Concluding her remarks, Greene accused Johnson of completing changing his modus operandi since becoming speaker.
“He completely changed who he was, funded the FBI, gave them a brand new building, fully funded the Department of Justice that is persecuting everyone on the right and actually targeting [a] presidential candidate for election this year, literally trying to put him in jail the rest of his life,” she said.
“We don’t know who Mike Johnson is anymore. So there’s, no, I can’t comprehend it,” she added.
Greene’s remarks come amid the release of a Politico report stating that President Joe Biden’s office “has been quietly backchanneling with Mike Johnson to push for Ukraine aid.”
“The White House has maintained contact with Johnson’s office about Ukraine aid throughout Congress’s two-week recess, according to two administration officials,” the piece reads.
“And while the president has publicly pressured House Republicans to pass the Ukraine aid package, he and his team have held off on aggressively attacking the speaker over the drawn-out process for getting it passed. Instead, they’ve sought to give Johnson breathing room as he leads a fractious GOP caucus with an ever-shrinking majority,” it continues.
Should Mike Johnson lose speakership over Ukraine aid deal? pic.twitter.com/Jc74kvALt3
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) April 1, 2024
Meanwhile, a separate report from the BBC notes that Johnson plans to “push the House – which has the narrowest of Republican majorities – to structure new Ukraine support in the form of loans.”
Moreover, to cover the costs, Johnson has suggested granting the Biden administration the power to seize and sell frozen Russian assets.
“If we can use the seized assets of Russian oligarchs to allow the Ukrainians to fight them, that’s just pure poetry,” he reportedly said.
“As an additional sweetener for his Republican colleagues, he also proposed tying the passage of Ukraine aid to legislation ending a hold on new liquefied natural gas export authorisations,” according to the BBC. “The hold was imposed by the Biden administration in January at the behest of environmental activists.”
Speaker Johnson thinks it’s ok if we just “loan” Ukraine the money as if the American people are stupid after he fully funded Biden’s deadly open border. https://t.co/o3607HgCJH
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) April 2, 2024
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