House Speaker Mike Johnson dialed the hypocrisy up to 11 during a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Eamon Javers when the GOP leader whined about how Americans are “losing faith in our institutions” in the wake of Donald Trump’s felony conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records, even though he undermined those very institutions by criticizing Trump’s “banana republic trial.”
When Eavers asked Johnson about Hunter Biden’s ongoing trial and whether or not the Republican leader would also characterize it as a “banana republic trial,” he was predictably mealy-mouthed.
“I haven’t been able to watch any of that yet. We will see. I hope not,” Johnson responded, before launching into a complaint about Trump’s trial being “a travesty” and “illegitimate” during the Q&A session at CNBC’s CEO Council Summit in Washington, D.C.
“I’m telling you, the American people are upset about it,” Johnson declared. In fact, according to Johnson, he’s traveled all over the country, “[a]nd everywhere I go, East Coast, West Coast, Upstate New York, Deep South, it doesn’t matter, the sentiment is the same. People are losing their faith in our institutions because they see this.”
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