House Speaker Mike Johnson completely ignored Trump’s firing of attorneys who refused to indict James Comey while demanding that Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute his political opponents by claiming it was a grand jury that indicted the former FBI director and not Trump.
Throughout this segment, Speaker Johnson continually obfuscated Jake Tapper’s questions. When answering the first question, he repeatedly stated that Comey lied under oath, which has not been proven.
TAPPER: Just looking at the principle at stake here, if you can remove Comey and Trump out of the equation, as a constitutional attorney and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, do you believe it’s acceptable for any president to publicly or privately instruct their Attorney General to prosecute a political opponent and go as far as firing a U.S. attorney if they don’t bring charges because they don’t think the case is strong enough?
JOHNSON: James Comey lied to Congress, okay?
He took an oath.
He said things to Congress that were not true.
It’s called perjury.
A grand jury that is not, you know, a nonpartisan, non-biased grand jury that was assembled looked at the charges, and they agreed, they voted, to bring an indictment of James Comey.
Not President Trump, not the DOJ, but a grand jury.
That’s how our system works.
Whenever Trump or another Republican gets indicted, Republicans roll out the typical defense that a prosecutor can get a ham sandwich indicted by a grand jury.
