by Hannah Knudsen at Breitbart News
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a “full equity partner in the firm” of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a Tuesday appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
While Lee said he considered Johnson a friend and ally in the past, he said he has transitioned to the “opposite direction” and is “not on the side of the field” that he hoped. Further, Lee said he is “saddened to report that he appears to have been elevated to full equity partner in the firm” of Schumer, McConnell, and Jeffries.
“I don’t know how to explain it,” he said, noting that Johnson has adopted the ways of the “firm.”
“I’ve never seen such a flip. I’ve never seen such a transition in the opposite direction from what I expected. And, you know, I defended a number of decisions that he’s made — defended him personally in circumstances where he had made decisions I didn’t like, thinking, ‘Okay, he’s gonna find his feet.’ But I think he’s found his feet. They’re just not on the side of the field I had hoped and expected to see,” the senator explained…
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