Report: Trump Demanded Mike Johnson Use the Federal Government to Overturn His Conviction, and Johnson’s Response Was Basically, “I’m on It, Boss!”

One thing you’ve in all probability picked up on during the last eight years and alter is that the Republican Celebration is embarrassingly, slavishly dedicated to Donald Trump, a person they deal with like a cult leader who can do no unsuitable and for whom they’d fortunately drink cyanide if he requested. That’s how, for instance, you possibly can clarify their deranged response to Hunter Biden being prosecuted and located responsible on gun expenses, and it’s additionally how one can clarify the chief of the Home of Representatives agreeing to make use of the total weight of the federal authorities to go after Trump’s enemies and assist him overturn a conviction by a jury of his friends.

Politico reports that shortly after he was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York, Trump known as Home Speaker Mike Johnson and, in between “frequent F-bombs,” advised the Louisiana lawmaker that Congress should destroy the Democrats he claims have been “weaponizing” the Division of Justice towards him. He additionally particularly demanded Johnson do one thing about his responsible conviction, reportedly saying, “We now have to overturn this.”

Did Johnson reply by reminding Trump that he was discovered responsible in state court docket (over which Congress has no jurisdiction) or by telling the ex-president that he ought to set an instance and respect the rule of regulation? Did he additionally remind Trump that he’s a religious Christian who makes use of particular software program to forestall himself from taking a look at pornography, so the concept he would go to bat for a man discovered responsible on expenses stemming from paying hush cash to a porn star would go towards all the pieces he claims to imagine? We’ll provide you with two guesses, however you’ll seemingly solely want one!

Per Politico:

The Speaker didn’t actually must be satisfied, one individual conversant in the dialog stated: Johnson, a former lawyer himself, already believed the Home had a task to play in addressing Trump’s predicament. The 2 have since spoken on the topic a number of instances.

Whereas it’s not clear precisely what Johnson may do to assist Trump overturn his conviction, the Speaker has already put stress on his buddies on the Supreme Court docket, saying in an interview earlier this month: “I feel that the justices on the Court docket—I do know a lot of them personally—I feel they’re deeply involved about that, as we’re. So I feel they’ll set this straight.”

As for concentrating on the prosecutors with instances towards Trump, Johnson is outwardly throughout it:

Johnson has additionally been in talks with Judiciary Committee chair and Trump ally Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) about utilizing the appropriations course of to focus on particular counsel Jack Smith’s probe. It’s an obvious softening of his place: He stated in a Politico interview final month that he discovered an identical concept by Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unworkable; now, he’s truly trying into it.

“That nation actually sees what’s occurring, and so they don’t need Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg and these sorts of oldsters to have the ability to proceed to make use of grant {dollars} for concentrating on folks in a political lawfare kind of approach,” Jordan advised us.

On Thursday, Trump spoke with Republicans on Capitol Hill, his first look there since he incited a violent assault on the Capitol that his allies within the GOP don‘t suppose he needs to be held liable for. And apparently it was as cringey and cult-y as one would count on: