House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) didn’t hold back during a fiery press conference with GOP leadership on Tuesday morning, delivering a blistering critique of the Democrat Party’s newfound love with the “rule of law” after four years of excusing and enabling Joe Biden’s lawless agenda.
Johnson sarcastically “welcomed” the Democrats to the concept of legal governance, highlighting their blatant hypocrisy in suddenly invoking the rule of law now that President Trump is taking decisive action to clean up Washington.
Johnson: “As I said last week, the Democratic Party is in a completely different place right now. There’s no identified leader of the party. They don’t have a clear vision. They seem rudderless.
In hopes of finding themselves, they’ve latched onto this new shiny object called the rule of law. Well, we’d like to welcome them to the concept.
It would be admirable if they hadn’t spent the last four years with their heads buried in the sand while Biden literally trampled over the rule of law with no objection.”
Johnson went on to list the many ways in which the Biden administration willfully violated the Constitution with the full backing of Congressional Democrats.
Johnson: “In fact, many Democrats cheered that lawlessness, like when the Biden administration unconstitutionally forced the middle class to pay the student loans of doctors and lawyers, when they illegally mandated that private companies implement vaccine requirements, when they radically rewrote Title IX to undermine women’s rights.
Those things were actually illegal, and the Democratic Party cheered it. They didn’t oppose it at all.
He then contrasted Biden’s reckless overreach with President Trump’s lawful use of executive authority.
Johnson: “President Trump, by contrast, is taking legitimate executive action to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in all these federal programs.
That’s what the American people demand and deserve. That’s what they voted for. They voted for real analysis and transformational change in the way the federal government works.
The only people who take issue with it are these same Congressional Democrats who never before had any issue with unelected staff or even bureaucrats running the White House for the last four years. That’s not what’s happening here.
The President has empowered his new cabinet secretaries and the DOGE effort, and all of these divisions in the executive branch of government to go and find where the abuses have taken place.
Every time something new is unearthed and uncovered, and we share it with the people, they applaud that this has been discovered, and they want us to keep going. That’s what’s going to happen.”
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SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: The Democrats have now latched onto a new shiny object called the ‘rule of law.’ We welcome them to the concept… it would be admirable if they hadn’t spent the last 4 years with their heads buried in the sand while Biden trampled the… pic.twitter.com/5HYEiWJKIh
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 11, 2025
Johnson also defended Trump’s administration from the activist judges attempting to interfere with the executive branch’s lawful authority, echoing sentiments from Vice President J.D. Vance.
“When Congress appropriates dollars for the executive branch to use, we build in not only in the spirit of the law, but in the letter of law, a broad amount of discretion for how that is used.”
“There is a presupposition in America that the commander in chief is going to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, that the commander in chief, the President of the United States, is going to command those within his branch of government to do the right thing by the people, to be accountable, to not fund drag shows…”
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Speaker Mike Johnson just agreed with VP Vance that crooked judges are illegally interfering with the Executive Branch’s authority.
“When Congress appropriates dollars for the executive branch to use, we build in not only in the spirit of the law, but in the letter of law, a… pic.twitter.com/bmtyd106Ri
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 11, 2025
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