New House Speaker Mike Johnson has already made a public and enthusiastic endorsement for 2024: “I’m all in for President Trump,” Johnson said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” last week. "I have endorsed him wholeheartedly," he added. Now he’s made it official with a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the would-be dictator’s ring. He was also attending a fundraiser there held by GOP Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida, according to Punchbowl News.
That’s an about-face from a younger, perhaps more idealistic Johnson, who as a state legislator said in 2015 that Trump “lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House.” He also said Trump was likely to “break more things than he fixes,” being “a hot head by nature,” which “is a dangerous trait to have in a Commander in Chief.”
Wild that after all those predictions that all came true, Johnson is so enthusiastic to endorse Trump for 2024. But of course, that conversion came during Trump’s disastrous administration, so much so that Johnson became an architect of the insurrection. As Mark Sumner wrote at Daily Kos, “No member of Congress did more to overturn the 2020 election.”
