Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is questioning whether House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is being blackmailed.
During an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Greene claimed a “majority of our majority of Republicans do not support funding Ukraine.” However, she pointed out the speaker has suggested there could standalone vote for Ukraine in the coming days.
“But now Mike Johnson has has made a complete departure of who he is, and what he stands for, and to the point where people are literally asking, is he blackmailed? What is wrong with him because he’s completely disconnected with what we want?” the Georgia congresswoman asked.
Carlson interjected, “Do you think he is being blackmailed?”
“I have no idea. I can’t comprehend, Tucker, what radically changes a man. I mean, if we break down the the second part of basically an omnibus,” Greene responded. “Let’s break that down. So Mike Johnson is pro-life. And the second part of the omnibus, just less than two weeks ago, he funded full term abortion clinics, full term abortion clinics. He funded the trans agenda on children. I mean, how does that even happen from a Christian conservative Republican speaker?”
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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
She went on:
“He did nothing for the southern border, did nothing to secure the border. 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, “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 presidential candidate for election this year. Literally trying to put him in jail the rest of his life. We don’t know who Mike Johnson is anymore…. I can’t comprehend it.”
Carlson responded by claiming he knows many of the top officials in Washington are “lying about their personal lives” and there is “something really amiss there.”
“And I would definitely say Mitch McConnell would be among those. And there does seem to be a connection between the creepiness of your personal life and the deception around your personal life and your willingness to vote with the other side,” he added.
Greene went on to claim Johnson funded “the military industrial complex and everything that they want done,” the “Green New Deal,” “full-term abortion clinics,” the “trans agenda on kids”, and “Biden’s open border invasion.”
“You can’t help but to question, what do they have on him? Is he being blackmailed? What would make this man do this?” she insisted.
Greene has taken aim at Johnson and filed a motion to vacate the chair after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill.
