The Unravelling of Speaker Mike Johnson: From Populist Holy Warrior to Defender of the Deep State
EDITORIAL
Since becoming Speaker of the House in October 2023, Mike Johnson has broken and reversed his position on virtually every promise he has made. He became a creature of the Deep State in less than six months.
We have all seen this video, Speaker Mike Johnson’s biggest issue since he was elected to Congress was to stop the mass illegal domestic spying and the attacks by the intelligence community on our elections. Here he is, with body language as if he is a puppy with his tail between his legs announcing his complete reversal:
Illegal abuse of spying tools against Americans and political campaigns is not the only issue Speaker Johnson has reversed himself on. On the budget and spending he has caved to the Democrats at most every turn. He promised to go back to regular order with a transparent appropriations process and now all we see are continuing resolutions and “omnibus spending bills” dropped in the House with only a few hours to read a multi-thousand-page spending bill that funds everything Republicans claim they are against.
Speaker Johnson has deliberately slimmed the majority Republicans have in the House to just one vote.
The expulsion of George Santos from the House was idiotic. PoliticalArena readers know that the allegations against Santos were just that, allegations. Santos has not been found guilty. What Santos’ voting record shows is that while he had every opportunity to enrich himself by going along with the donor class and corporate interests, he literally told corrupt money to buzz off and amassed nearly the best Turning Point voting score in Congress.
Santos was a guaranteed yes vote for Biden impeachment, shutting down FISA/domestic spying and ethics reform. Santos literally took on the uniparty. That is why he was targeted.
Speaker Johnson allowed two establishment Members of Congress, Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher, to resign, but waited until it was passed the time for a special election to be able to replace them, deliberately slimming the House Republican majority to one.
More on the FISA domestic spying betrayal below, but first we must ask, how does this happen to a man like Mike Johnson?
While we have plenty of facts and circumstantial evidence, PoliticalArena is going to have to fill in the gaps with some educated speculation. This is how we view Speaker Johnson at this point.
We may never know what they did to get Johnson to flip on FISA and his other top issues as he has. We do know that the national security state/intelligence community plays hardball and was actually lobbying Congress directly.
Speaker Johnson lost a vote to reauthorize FISA just last week, but like herpes, he would not let the issue go away. Speaker Johnson has fought harder to reauthorize unconstitutional domestic spying than he has on any other issue. He said that the border was the hill he was willing to die on only to fund giving welfare to border crossers in the omnibus spending bill.
PoliticalArena does not believe Speaker Johnson was bribed. When Johnson became Speaker, he had less than $10,000 in his bank account. If he wanted to cash in using his seat in Congress has had had plenty of time to do so.
That said, we do know that he FBI/CIA and the intelligence community spies on every Member of Congress (2), their lawyers, staffers, and anyone in their surveillance orbit such as their families.
Families.
Remember the bogus prosecution of Trump’s first National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn? DoJ prosecutors threatened to engage in lawfare against his son, who had a newborn baby, if he would not agree to falsely plead guilty.
The FBI dirty tricks. FBI was caught hacking into and planting classified documents in veteran CBS reporter Sharyl Atkisson's computer so then they would then have the excuse to send in the SWAT team via an “anonymous tip.” There is little stopping them from using a similar tactic to plant kiddie pr0n on a target’s computer.
The FBI has a long history of engaging in such dirty tricks.
The bottom line is that every Member of Congress who voted for FISA has effectively decided that the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution is a suggestion.
And we have Members of Congress such as Dan Crenshaw (TX), Jason Crow (CO) and Max Miller (OH) who just go to the American people and straight up lie about the domestic spying that's going on. Do not be fooled, the documents released by Ed Snowden, DoJ Inspector General reports and released FISA Court documents reveal mass illegal spying in grim detail, much of which PoliticalArena has reported.
In one of the most dishonest narratives we have ever seen, Dan Crenshaw got on X (Twitter) and bragged about how Congress has passed 56 new reforms in this FISA extension to make sure there are no more abuses.
Sounds lovely, doesn’t it?
But here is the problem.... What prosecutor in the Department of Justice is going to prosecute people in the DoJ/FBI, CIA and the NSA who ignore the reforms and spy on Americans illegally anyway?
The abuses of FISA spying tools were already illegal beforehand. Who was prosecuted? Who was forced to resign? They passed a whole bunch of reforms before, and said reforms were completely ignored because there is no one with any teeth who will enforce those reforms.
Congress has passed laws requiring all of these agencies and others such as the CDC and the FDA to report to Congress about a host of subjects including abuses - these agencies simply ignore these laws. Why? Because not only do they know they will not be prosecuted, but they also know that the donor class completely controls the budget process and the odds of a Republican controlled house cutting or zeroing out their budget is effectively zero.
This is how stupid Dan Crenshaw and his ilk think you are. Cranshaw’s allies in the White House have literally called the warrant requirement of the 4th Amendment a threat to national security.
Crenshaw’s hubris knows no bounds. Here he is telling Ric Grenell, the former Director of National Intelligence, that he doesn’t know what he is talking about when it comes to illegal domestic spying:
Is your Member of Congress on this list? We noticed Tony Gonzales (TX) is and he is facing a runoff primary election on May 28th, it is critical that Texans in the 23rd Congressional District support Brandon Herrara in that race.
Max Miller in Ohio was unopposed in his primary. However, he is being challenged in the general election by former Democrat (who woke up) and now independent Dennis Kucinich who spoke at CPAC recently.
And make no mistake, a significant portion of the “reasoning” for this vote is to make spying on Trump and engaging in more illegal election interference less legally risky. Each of these members knows full well that all of the FISA spying power and dirty tricks are and will be used against Donald Trump. Just as Tucker Carlson warned last week when the first FISA vote failed, and as we have explained above, Speaker Johnson tried again and again until he managed to get it passed by one vote:
UPDATE - Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch outlines Speaker Johnson’s failures:
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Always remember this readers:
Speaker Johnson has deliberately slimmed the majority Republicans have in the House to just one vote.
The expulsion of George Santos from the House was idiotic. PoliticalArena readers know that the allegations against Santos were just that, allegations. Santos has not been found guilty. What Santos’ voting record shows is that while he had every opportunity to enrich himself by going along with the donor class and corporate interests, he literally told corrupt money to buzz off and amassed nearly the best Turning Point voting score in Congress.
Santos was a guaranteed yes vote for Biden impeachment, shutting down FISA/domestic spying and ethics reform. Santos literally took on the uniparty. That is why he was targeted.
Speaker Johnson allowed two establishment Members of Congress, Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher, to resign, but waited until it was passed the time for a special election to be able to replace them, deliberately slimming the House Republican majority to one.