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Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:20 PM Yesterday

Speaker Mike Johnson is a terrorist

Speaker Johnson condemns congressional Democrats as ‘legislative terrorists’

On Jan. 6, 2021, a New York man named Christopher Moynihan was one of the first rioters to break into the U.S. Capitol. He was later sentenced to 21 months in prison. Moynihan did not, however, serve his full term behind bars, because he was one of the many criminals Donald Trump pardoned just hours after returning to power earlier this year.

Nine months after receiving the presidential reprieve, Moynihan made headlines again. On Tuesday morning, the public learned that the pardoned rioter had been arrested after allegedly threatening to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

According to the evidence presented by local prosecutors, the man texted in reference to the New York Democratic congressman, “I cannot allow this terrorist to live.”

Hours after these revelations came to light, a reporter asked House Speaker Mike Johnson for his reaction to the developments. The Louisiana Republican said he knew very little about the story (a familiar posture for the GOP leader) before he ultimately blamed “the left” for having cultivated an “assassination culture.” (When a Republican is targeted with violence, it’s the left’s fault, and when a Democrat is targeted, it’s also the left’s fault.)

One day later, the House speaker sat down with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to talk about the ongoing government shutdown.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
COLLINS: If you have a healthcare plan, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so people can hear it?

MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists


https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-condemns-congressional-democrats-legislative-terrorist-rcna239323



Leader Jeffries addressed this and other issues on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer today"

excerpt:

Blitzer: You heard the speaker suggest you guys, the Democrats are acting like terrorists, holding the American people hostage right now in order to get what you want. uh you want to just quickly respond to that?

Leader Jeffries: Well, that type of language is reckless. It's irresponsible and it's going to get someone killed. What do these folks not understand as it relates to the language that they continue to use?

We should be able to battle it out in the contest of ideas as opposed to trying to use these extreme terms that have been unleashed on the American people from the very beginning of this presidency and matter of fact for a long period of time by the current president and those sycophants who continue to do nothing more than rubber stamp his extreme agenda and hurt the American people.


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...not the first time republican Speaker Mike Johnson has incited violence against Democrats:

June 10, 2025 House Speaker Mike Johnson Incites Violence, Calls for Sitting Governor To Be “Tarred and Feathered”

“Mike Johnson is following Donald Trump’s lead in a dangerous campaign of revenge and retribution, inciting violence by calling for a sitting governor to be ‘tarred and feathered’ for standing up to Trump. Trump is disrespecting the military by using them as political pawns to suppress who he sees as his political opponents — including thousands of ordinary Americans who are horrified by Trump’s inhumane immigration enforcement that stokes fear, rips families apart, and pulls U.S. citizens into his dragnet. Johnson’s comments today are dangerous and make clear that for Republicans, this has everything to do with inciting fear and violence — and nothing to do with law and order.”

https://democrats.org/news/house-speaker-mike-johnson-incites-violence-calls-for-sitting-governor-to-be-tarred-and-feathered/


The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. MAGA Mike Johnson just spoke out on October 10, 2025 against the “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party. He calls the NO KINGS rallies and marches scheduled all over the country on October 18 the “Antifa crowd,” “the pro-Hamas crowd,” “Marxists.” He characterizes the entire NO KINGS pro-Democracy movement as anti-American when he says it’s “The Anti-America Rally.”

https://orwellsgraveredux.substack.com/p/did-maga-mike-johnson-incite-violence


Johnson after Trump rally shooting: ‘Everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down’
https://thehill.com/homenews/4771648-johnson-after-trump-rally-shooting-everyone-needs-to-turn-the-rhetoric-down/

Speaker Mike Johnson says after Trump shooting Americans must 'turn down the violent rhetoric'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13633067/speaker-mike-johnson-donald-trump-shooting-rally-rhetoric.html
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Speaker Mike Johnson is a terrorist (Original Post) bigtree Yesterday OP
Fixing games and MAGA Mike the terrorist yankee87 23 hrs ago #1

yankee87

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1. Fixing games and MAGA Mike the terrorist
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:34 PM
23 hrs ago

Never negotiate with terrorists like MAGA Mike.
Also, shocked that the mob is involved in sports. Remember, Henry Hill did the same in college.

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