Is Speaker Mike Johnson on the take?
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared on Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's "Uncensored" show to float this serious allegation against Johnson, a fellow Republican, for his recent efforts at the House helm.
"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 blackmailed? What is wrong with him?' Because he is completely disconnected from what we want."
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Carlson then asked: "Do you think he is being blackmailed?"
Greene then attempted to demur, saying, "I have no idea."
She opined, "I can't comprehend what radically changes a man."
And then she broke down some of Johnson's actions, some that go against his outward Christian faith — causing her and other crimson red Republicans to be baffled.
Things like pushing through a $1.2 trillion package to prevent a government shutdown that included earmarks for abortion clinics, trans agenda, funding the FBI's new edifice, but apparently shunned fixing the crisis at the Southern Border.
Before Congress broke for recess, Greene formally took on Johnson by filing a motion to vacate his leadership. The move mirrored the drum beat that sent Johnson's predecessor speaker, Kevin McCarthy, to be ousted after a short tenure for trying to compromise with Democrats to offset a government shutdown.
“We’ve started the clock to start the process to elect a new speaker,” Greene said on the Capitol steps.
Since then, it appears she's lost all confidence in Johnson, going so far as to call him a Democrat in Republican's clothing.
"This isn't a Republican Speaker we have right now," she told Carlson. "This is a Democrat Speaker of the House because there is zero daylight between what Nancy Pelosi did last Congress and what Mike Johnson is doing now; our so-called Republican Speaker of the House."
Perhaps the biggest bone Greene has to pick against Johnson is his support to push forth a $60 billion Ukrainian funding bill on the House floor.
The Senate passed a $95.3 billion bill for foreign aid in February, including $60 billion to support Ukraine in its war against Russia. Until now, it appears Johnson has held off putting the measure up for a House vote.
Greene claims the effort is backstabbing.
"We really need this money this $60 billion," she said. "We are losing our country to the illegal invasion that's happening everyday at our Southern Border and I'm so pissed off about it because the American people are pissed off about it.
"Our so-called Republican Speaker Of the House is only working with Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries, and Ukraine-first Mitch McConnell and White House and Jake Sullivan, who he talks to all the time — people have had it."
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