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The Republican party-- corrupt, blackmailed, treasonous
Corrupt, blackmailed, treasonous assholes!
From "Capitol Hunters"--
As Mike Johnson cuts off aid to Ukraine, we need to see why he’s obeying Trump. People with secrets comply - and Johnson is almost certainly a child abuser.
From 2019-2023 he told 3 different stories about his “adopted son”, all lies. This thread reviews them - and Matt Gaetz. Shifting, contradictory stories are a red flag. Johnson's three versions of all contort truth to deny he “took in” an unrelated boy as a single man - they all insert wife Kelly in impossible ways. It looks very bad.
STORY 1: Johnson first announced his “son” Michael James in June 2019 in a House hearing on reparations for slavery. He said he and Kelly met a 14-year-old boy as newlyweds “22 years ago”, i.e. 1997. No one flagged the problem: Mike and Kelly met only in 1998, married in 1999
STORY 2: When Johnson talked about his ‘son’ again a year later, to Water Isaacson, he fixed the Kelly problem by making the boy 3 years younger. Now he and Kelly took in the 14-year-old “20 years ago”, i.e. 1999, the year they married. Isaacson didn’t notice the switch. Isaacson should have worried when a leader in the Southern Baptist Convention, a hotbed of abuse, spoke for a missing child, but worry isn't his style. Sam Kriss calls him a “born sycophant" built to "spread as much propagandistic bullshit as possible.”
For 3 years, Johnson repeated Story 2 like a script. 2020: “have you seen the movie The Blind Side - that was our story except MY Michael was not an NFL prospect” 2022: “You’ve seen the movie The Blind Side, that is our story except my kid was not an NFL prospect”
STORY 3: In 2023, the Daily Mail found Michael James and learned he was older. Johnson then scrambled to cover. He added the 3 years back, now saying he met James in 1996 (when the boy would be 13) but “took him in” only 3 years later, at age 16, after he married Kelly. Johnson’s not forgetful: he told the same story for 3 years. He or his spokeswoman said six times that James was “taken in” at 14. His story changed only when it had to.
There's more but the lies make it clear: Johnson's hiding something bad. No one knows Michael James’ story. The Daily Mail got a statement that feels scripted: “I always felt loved like I was a part of their family”, but James wasn’t at Mike and Kelly’s wedding. Note that Johnson's SBC routinely made abuse victims sign NDAs: payment for silence.
MATT GAETZ. It’s creepy that Mike Johnson used a House hearing to announce he’d informally “adopted” a young, minority boy. It’s creepier that TWO high-profile House Reps did the same. A year after Johnson, Gaetz used the same playbook to announce his own ‘son’.
Like Johnson, Gaetz used a House hearing touching on race. But Gaetz isn't smooth; he managed only “are you suggesting..none of us have non-white children? Because you reflected on your black son and said none of us could understand..”
At the end, Mike Johnson stepped in. To get the details out, Gaetz had to Tweet them - “This is my son Nestor” - and give an interview to People. He said he took the boy in at age 12, six years ago. People: “..the strangest thing about this story is that this is the first time any of it has been shared publicly”
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