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Devout Speaker Johnson and the Worship of Trump
Donald Trump’s deals with his fellow sultans this week, particularly the one for a 747 that Qatar has rigged out with the kind of gold-shmeared decor he so loves, have provided some ethical challenges for Trump’s fellow Republicans—none more so than House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Speaker Johnson, after all, is a stickler for and promoter of traditional Christian ethics. Last year, he told a gaggle of reporters that he supported a newly enacted Louisiana law—drafted, he pointed out, by some of his onetime colleagues in that state’s legislature—requiring schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms. “I don’t think it’s offensive in any way,” he said. “I think it’s a positive thing.”
Some Republican members of Congress, less ostentatiously guided by the Lord’s ethical codes than their Speaker, have condemned Trump’s acceptance of Qatar’s $400 million gift. Johnson, however, has managed to craft an ethical loophole through which Trump, in his assessment, can strut. “Other nations give us gifts all the time,” he told reporters yesterday. Asked whether Trump and his family’s business dealings created ethical issues of the kind that Republicans loudly and constantly criticized in Hunter Biden’s various endeavors, Johnson explained the difference
Unlike Hunter’s, Trump’s dealings are “all out in the open,” he said. “I can just tell you, President Trump has nothing to hide, he’s very upfront about it. Congress has oversight responsibility, but so far as I know the ethics are all being followed.”
Speaker Johnson, after all, is a stickler for and promoter of traditional Christian ethics. Last year, he told a gaggle of reporters that he supported a newly enacted Louisiana law—drafted, he pointed out, by some of his onetime colleagues in that state’s legislature—requiring schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms. “I don’t think it’s offensive in any way,” he said. “I think it’s a positive thing.”
Some Republican members of Congress, less ostentatiously guided by the Lord’s ethical codes than their Speaker, have condemned Trump’s acceptance of Qatar’s $400 million gift. Johnson, however, has managed to craft an ethical loophole through which Trump, in his assessment, can strut. “Other nations give us gifts all the time,” he told reporters yesterday. Asked whether Trump and his family’s business dealings created ethical issues of the kind that Republicans loudly and constantly criticized in Hunter Biden’s various endeavors, Johnson explained the difference
Unlike Hunter’s, Trump’s dealings are “all out in the open,” he said. “I can just tell you, President Trump has nothing to hide, he’s very upfront about it. Congress has oversight responsibility, but so far as I know the ethics are all being followed.”
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-05-15-devout-speaker-johnson-worship-trump/
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... someone can be a big fan, admirer, and follower of both Crooked Donald and the Ten Commandments.
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