In a scathing rebuke, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) tore into her ex-colleague, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), for his brazen appearance at former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan, labeling him a hypocrite of the highest order.
Cheney wasted no time in exposing the glaring hypocrisy of Johnson, a self-proclaimed devout Christian, aligning himself with a man standing trial for sordid hush-money cover-up charges.
“Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club,” wrote Cheney. “I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
Cheney’s blistering condemnation echoed across the political spectrum, with Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro deriding Johnson’s religious veneer in defending Trump’s payments to an adult film star.
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“I prayed and the Lord said to me: ‘Modern-day Moses, go forth and support the man who paid the porn star not to reveal his adultery and then lied to the Government so as to pay less tax,'” Shapiro sarcastically remarked.
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat minced no words in labeling Johnson’s allegiance as a chilling display of authoritarian subservience.
“Authoritarian loyalty performance alert,” wrote historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarian political movements.
“”It’s what cult members do,” remarked former Trump supporter and Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), highlighting the disturbing parallels between blind loyalty and Trump’s grip on his followers.
Even Trump biographer Tim O’Brien expressed astonishment at Johnson’s allegiance, questioning the integrity of a member of the supposed Rule of Law Party cozying up to a criminal defendant.
“A member of the Rule of Law Party is attending Trump’s criminal fraud trial today,” O’Brien said.
As Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined the ranks of Trump supporters at the trial, Cheney’s condemnation underscores a stark reality: Republicans’s devotion to morality takes a back seat when it comes to cozying up to power.
