The newfound Speaker said he was a “man of modest means” in a Fox interview.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded on Sunday to a report by The Daily Beast that highlighted his apparent lack of a bank account on his financial disclosure.
The response, however, did not actually answer whether he had one.
Fox News Sunday moderator Shannon Bream pressed Johnson on whether he had a bank account, citing a Vanity Fair write-up of The Daily Beast’s report and noting that “there’s been so much made about it.”
“Can you clear that up for us?” Bream asked.
Johnson did not.
“Look, I’m a man of modest means,” Johnson said. “I was a lawyer, but I did constitutional law, and most of my career has been in the nonprofit sector. We have four kids, five now, that are very active. And I have kids in graduate school, law school, undergraduate. We have a lot of expenses, but I can relate to everybody else. My father was a firefighter, right? I didn’t grow up with great means. But I think that helps us to be a better leader because we can relate to every hard-working American family. That’s who we are. And I think it governs and helps govern my decisions and how I lead.”
This guy has three kids in college and no fucking bank accounts... Dude, is this guy congress Clarence Thomas? Fuck, it feels like these people are all body snatchers!
If it was a normal person I would cut him some slack. Your memory goes to shit when you are a parent about kid stuff. Kids go from potato to walking talking eating machines in a year. There are moments when you see them do something and you are like "how are you bicycling, I feel like I just changed your diaper about a month ago?".
We have four kids, five now, that are very active.
Talk about a real-time update. “OH, THIS JUST IN, SHE’S POPPED OUT ANOTHER ONE!”
To be fair, he was probably thinking about the children that he has to spend real money on, and not the young/newborn(?) one who's expenses are very modest at this point in comparison.
I had a fantasy last night where I became president and made the CEO/board of directors culpable for any illegal activities of the company then placed a banking embargo on every non-extradition country. Double whammy, they run, can't access their US assets, they stay, can't access their tax haven accounts.
He's been in government since 2017 or earlier, and gov jobs require electronic payment. Period. I have no idea how this motherfucker can get paid by the federal government without a bank account.
Absolutely... The first time I saw him in a pic, i shrouded at the smirk. In all the images I have seen him in since, he looks like he's constantly on the verge of some kind of orgasm, always this dismissive smirk in his face.
Or is he saying he just hired the actor to play the son?
That would be hilarious. Some little person who pulls off his mask and starts talking with an Eastern European accent. Lights up a smoke. "I left homeland for this".
Respond back, get on the phone with someone. Sound crazy. Make up absurd crackpot ideas and demand that they agree with you such as James Madison wasn't a Mason he was an alien and is Speaker Johnson aware of this and investigating?