Flashback: Speaker Johnson Once Triggered Liberal Rep Into Throwing Papers at Him
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson drew the ire of one of his Democratic colleagues during a House hearing earlier this year, prompting her to throw a paper at him. The Louisiana Republican was unanimously…
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson drew the ire of one of his Democratic colleagues during a House hearing earlier this year, prompting her to throw a paper at him.
The Louisiana Republican was unanimously selected as speaker Wednesday by his party.
The fourth-term congressman was a relatively unknown and quiet member of the GOP caucus until he suddenly ascended to third in the line of presidential succession.
But he was part of a viral moment in March when he offered a document to Democratic Del. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, only to have her throw it at him in a fit moments later.
Plaskett is one of the House’s nonvoting members.
The triggered Democrat later hurled an accusation that Johnson had attempted to “mansplain” to her.
During a March 30 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, Johnson requested to enter a 2021 letter from his state’s attorney general that condemned “political violence.”