Mike Johnson Serves up Word Salad About Trump’s Call for Democrats to Be Executed

Scarborough Nearly Drops F-Bomb While Shredding Mike Johnson’s ‘Fainting Couch’ Act to Defend Trump

MS NOW host “Morning Joe” opened Friday with a jolt of disbelief — and a near–on-air expletive — as Joe Scarborough tore into House Speaker Mike Johnson for what he called a shameless defense of Donald Trump. Johnson had just been pressed by reporters about Trump’s latest Truth Social outburst, in which the president implied that Democratic lawmakers should be executed for “encouraging sedition” after they urged service members not to follow ill…

A Democrat responds after President Trump suggests she and 5 other lawmakers be executed for sedition

Rep. Maggie Goodlander joins The Lead.

Mike Johnson Dances Around Trump's Call To Execute Democrats

It was actually Democrats who had been "wildly inappropriate" with their words, according to the House Speaker.

Mike Johnson serves up word salad about Trump’s call for Democrats to be executed

Johnson criticizes Democrats after the president says Democrats committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR’ that is ‘punishable by DEATH’

Trump Suggests Death Penalty for 'Seditious' Democratic Lawmakers Who Condemned ‘Illegal’ Military Orders

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a half-dozen Democratic lawmakers who issued a video urging military officials to “refuse illegal orders” should be tried for seditious behavior, a crime he said was “punishable by death!” Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), along with Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzio (D-PA) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), put out a video on Tuesday directed at their fellow …

Mike Johnson Dodges When Pressed on Trump’s Call to Execute Congressional Democrats

(Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) dodged when asked Thursday to respond to President Donald Trump accusing some Democratic lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR” that’s “punishable by DEATH!” Trump raged on Truth Social against a video made by six Democratic lawmakers in which they tell members of the military and intelligence communities that they have an “obligation to follow only lawful orders,” not “ill…