Johnson Once Trashed Trump As Dangerous, Immoral

The New York Times reports:

Years before he played a lead role in trying to help President Donald J. Trump stay in office after the 2020 election or defended him in two separate Senate impeachment trials, Speaker Mike Johnson bluntly asserted that Mr. Trump was unfit to serve and could be a danger as president.

“The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House,” Mr. Johnson wrote in a lengthy post on Facebook on Aug. 7, 2015, before he was elected to Congress and a day after the first Republican primary debate of the campaign cycle.

Challenged in the comments by someone defending Mr. Trump, Mr. Johnson responded: “I am afraid he would break more things than he fixes. He is a hot head by nature, and that is a dangerous trait to have in a Commander in Chief.” Mr. Johnson, then a state lawmaker in Louisiana, also questioned what would happen if “he decided to bomb another head of state merely disrespecting him.”

Read the full article. There’s more, including when Johnson was horrified by Trump calling women “fat pigs” during a debate. Gift link.

Speaker Mike Johnson in Aug. 2015: “The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House…He is a hot head by nature, and that is a dangerous trait to have in a Commander in Chief.” https://t.co/1FipOGUzGB

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