Speaker of the House Mike Johnson knows what we all know about Donald Trump:
- He cheated on his wife with a porn star and he still does not admit it happened.
- He paid hush money to that porn star to prevent her story from going public before 2016 presidential election
- He had an affair with a Playboy model that he also denies.
- He says he can grab women by the genitals and get away with it.
- He has lied or misled the American people over 30,000 times
- He is facing 88 criminal indictments. (Can every single one of them be false?)
- He says that January 6 insurrectionists are “hostages”
- He was impeached twice
- In his last rally he praised Hannibal Lecter and started chants of “sh–t” and “bulls–t.”
- Multiple women have accused him of sexual assault. This includes E.J. Carroll, who a jury concluded that he sexually assaulted in New York department store
- At a National Prayer Breakfast he said, in response to the biblical command to “love your enemies” said “I don’t know if I agree.”
And I could go on.
I know how many Trump evangelicals will respond to these claims. They will say something like, “I am voting for a president, not a pastor.” Fair enough. But at what point do these Christian cultural warriors–men and women who claim to care about the moral fabric of the country–say enough is enough? Many of Trump’s supporters are ministers with large platforms. As ministers they have a prophetic vocation to condemn sin and call leaders to task based on biblical morality. (Where are the Nathans!) Yet they remain silent. By dismissing Trump’s blatant immorality they are failing to carry out their clerical responsibilities.
And then there is Mike Johnson. He is a conservative evangelical Christian. He believes the United States should be a Christian nation. But one wonders: How can the United States be a Christian nation with a man like Donald Trump at its head? I have no doubt that Mike Johnson believes that most of the things I listed above are immoral. One might think he would condemn these things. Or, at the very least, try to ignore them, keep his head down, and do his best to lead the House of Representatives. Nope. Instead, Johnson traveled up to New York to defend Donald Trump in his porn star hush-money trial.
Here you go:
Perhaps Liz Cheney said it best: