(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Has Helped Lead the Trump MAGA Attack On Our Institutions [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-26 Speaker Mike Johnson Has Helped Lead The MAGA Effort To Smear The FBI As Politicized The new House Speaker, Mike Johnson, has on numerous occasions helped try to undermine the FBI as politicized. This is absolutely ludicrous and is aiding our foreign adversaries in undermining our institutions. Jim Jordan has led a MAGA political witch hunt on behalf of Trump in an attempt to undermine the FBI and its investigations of Trump. As part of that witch hunt, Jim Jordan called Christopher Wray, the Head of the FBI to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. What people may not be aware of is that the new Speaker of the House was part of that effort to delegitimize the FBI and the prosecution's against Trump. In the hearing with Wray, Johnson said “The American people have lost faith in the FBI” and that their hearing was about “whether the very system of justice in our country can be trusted anymore.” Johnson said that it was up to them to get it “under control” and read a litany of attacks against the FBI as if they were true. Click here: Video of Rep. Johnson Attacking and Undermining FBI The truth of the matter is the Head of the FBI was appointed by Trump as well as all of the top positions in the FBI. Wray is a lifelong Republican. This is just an attempt to undermine the prosecution of Trump as political and Speaker Johnson was at the heart of doing so. Speaker Johnson Will Attempt To Reignite The Twitter Files To Undermine The FBI It has already started. Musk just reposted Rep. Johnson’s attack on the FBI and Twitter and there are calls for a hearing on Twitter’s interference into the 2020 election. This is absolutely ludicrous. Trump appointed the head of the FBI, Christopher Wray, along with all the top officials at the FBI. The alleged wrongdoing of the FBI occurred while Trump was President and under Trump’s own FBI appointees. This is yet another blatant MAGA attempt to undermine our institutions, undermine our media, allow for a deluge of foreign misinformation, allow foreign interference for Trump on Twitter and in the media in 2024, and to undermine the FBI because of Trump’s prosecution. The new Speaker of the House dangerously undermines all of our institutions in the name of “restoring trust.” The Trump MAGA coup in the House has worked. Trump now has a Speaker of the House willing and now even more enabled to undermine the FBI and all of our institutions for him. Here is Musk’s tweet already conspiring with MAGA to bring this on: MUSK Tweet. Speaker Johnson said that “Twitter was basically an FBI subsidiary before @elonmusk took it over….” Here is Speaker Mike Johnson’s press release on this: Johnson's Twitter Release Matt Taibbi Said He Found No Evidence That The Government Interfered To Suppress The Hunter Biden Story Musk had investigative reporter, Matt Taibbi review the Twitter files and he said that he found no evidence that the government, including the FBI, interfered in the Hunter Biden story. Rather, the FBI had only made general warnings in advance of the election of possible foreign actor interference in the election. Why is this important? This is important because Speaker Johnson repeatedly has argued that the FBI interfered to stop the Hunter Biden story on Twitter which is absolutely false. This shows how far Speaker Johnson is willing to go to damage our institutions to protect Trump. Here is the Matt Tiabbi post: NO EVIDENCE OF FBI INTERFERENCE ON HUNTER BIDEN STORY This is also ludicrous as Trump was President and all of the top government jobs were filled by Trump appointees! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/26/2201803/-Speaker-of-the-House-Mike-Johnson-Has-Helped-Lead-the-MAGA-Attack-On-Our-Institutions?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/