House Speaker Mike Johnson Skirts Question on Personal Bank Account
House Speaker Mike Johnson Skirts Question on Personal Bank Account
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.”
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Yep. It's required for accounts totalling more than $5000, because a poor politician is easier to buy off than a rich one.
So unless he's flat broke (unlikely for a Republican), he's hiding assets.
a poor politician is easier to buy off than a rich one.
Nice thought but probably not true. See literally any US politician. Or Supreme Court judge.
"A man with a lot of Ivory is less likely to be an Ivory hunter than a man with no Ivory!"
But a man with a lot of money is much more likely to be greedy than a man with no money.
Yeah I don't understand this logic either. You have to follow a higher ethical standard the lower you are in practice. Our political system should reflect what the real world is.
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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".