Donald Trump and His Speaker-Puppet

​Mike Johnson hit with stern letter from Epstein survivors: 'Our trauma is not your pawn'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was confronted on Thursday with an open letter from the victims of the late billionaire financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, calling on him to stop obstructing the swearing in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ).Grijalva was elected weeks ago to the seat ...

Donald Trump and His Speaker-Puppet

I want to talk about some implications of this Annie Karni story, describing the background to what is plain as day: Donald Trump, who jokes in private that he — not Mike Johnson — is the Speaker of the House, runs the nominal Speaker. Karni pitches the story in terms of Johnson’s “decision” to keep the House on vacation for the entirety of the government shutdown. But it has larger implications of the possibility of peeling Republican Congressp…

Fear of Vote on Releasing Epstein Files is Keeping the U.S. Government Shut Down – Mike Johnson and Melania Trump Sued Over Epstein Scandal

by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News: While the official narrative of why the U.S. Government has been shut down so long follows typical partisan political fighting with each side blaming the other, the real truth appears to be that Mike Johnson, the GOP Speaker of the House, refuses to swear in the newly elected representative […]

Mike Moses-Grind(e)r Johnson continues the GOP siege of the Epstein files

The post quotes Virginia Giuffre reflecting on a 2001 photo from Naomi Campbell's birthday party, where she appears as a minor beside Jeffrey Epstein, illustrating how bystanders recognized her youth amid his trafficking network. The attached image,...

Did Mike Johnson Just Claim All the Epstein Files Have Been Released?

The House speaker made the claim while pushing an outrageous falsehood about Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

Ted Cruz Says Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Drifted Left, Urges Public to Stop Listening - latestglobalinsight

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday urged Americans to stop paying attention to Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), suggesting that her recent positions and rhetoric have shifted leftward. His remarks come as Greene has ramped up criticism of her own party during the ongoing federal government shutdown. Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Cruz said there’s no reason for people to “spend much time worrying about what Marjorie is saying.” He went on …