Johnson Denies That Trump Attacked Milwaukee Hours After Trump Tells Fox Reporter He Attacked Milwaukee

June 14, 2024 Republicans, Trump Lies

Mediaite reports:

Republicans cannot get their story straight about what Donald Trump told them in a closed-door meeting on Thursday. That includes Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Johnson appeared on Hannity, where the speaker denied Trump disparaged Milwaukee at all even though – and this is crucial – Trump admitted he disparaged Milwaukee.

“Can we just settle one thing once and for all here?” Sean Hannity asked. “Did President Trump– it’s been attributed to him that he took a shot at Milwaukee. Did he do that?”

“No,” Johnson replied. “I didn’t hear it and I was sitting right next to him. I introduced him this morning at breakfast where he started the day.”

Here’s what Trump himself told a Fox reporter:

It was very clear what I meant. I said, we’re very concerned with crime. I love Milwaukee, I have great friends in Milwaukee, but it’s as you know, the crime numbers are terrible. We have to be very careful.

But I was referring to also the election, the the ballots, the, the way it went down, it was very bad in Milwaukee.

Very, very bad. And the people understand that and they agree with me. Everybody agrees. No, that was a fake story that came out. Yeah. Milwaukee has a problem with crime, as do most Democrat run cities.

Most Democrat-run cities, almost all of them have problems. But but they also have a problem with votes. And,, election integrity. And that’s what we want to make sure we get straight.

As I reported yesterday, multiple GOP reps gave their own wildly conflicting accounts of Trump’s comments, with several, like Johnson, claiming that Trump said nothing at all about Milwaukee. The below Fox News account was posted at 3:41PM. Sean Hannity’s show runs at 9PM.



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