MSNBC’s Willie Geist on Thursday dismissed the concept reasonable Republicans didn’t have sufficient time to vet election-denying Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) forward of voting for him to grow to be the brand new Home speaker.
The concept that Johnson’s election moved too rapidly to look at his document “doesn’t cross the snicker take a look at,” mentioned the “Morning Joe” co-anchor.
“As a result of it wasn’t transferring rapidly,” Geist identified.
“All it’s a must to do is Google him to seek out that he was one of many architects and the leaders of the efforts, the try anyway, to overturn the 2020 election,” he added.
Johnson strongly backed former President Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden. He’s additionally a fierce opponent of LGBTQ+ rights and abortion.
Trump cheered “MAGA Mike Johnson” following his victory.
Earlier on “Morning Joe,” The Washington Submit’s Jacqueline Alemany described Johnson’s election as a “actually exceptional flip of occasions” given his lack of title recognition. She mentioned one lawmaker mentioned Republicans “didn’t have time to correctly vet him.”
Alemany additionally defined Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) justification for backing Johnson, when he’d been staunchly towards the Trump-endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“Jordan was actively concerned in encouraging the rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol” whereas Johnson “was concerned within the lawyerly features of the struggle and, subsequently, it wasn’t as dangerous,” Alemany mentioned Buck reasoned.
