• FiftyShadesOfLatte@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    The only supporting evidence in this article, as to why the GOP, elected Johnson:

    “I think he’s gonna be a fantastic speaker,” Trump said Wednesday at the New York courthouse where the former president, who is now the Republican front-runner for president in 2024, is on trial over a lawsuit alleging business fraud.

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      1 year ago

      From here:

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-republican-2020-election

      “Johnson served on Donald Trump’s legal defense team during his first impeachment.”

      and:

      “He played a key role in assisting Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, the New York Times reported last year. When Texas filed a lawsuit at the US supreme court asking the justices to set aside valid electoral votes from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona, he organized a friend-of-the-court brief in support and got 125 of his House Republican colleagues to sign on.”