Slotkin mocks ‘good boy’ Mike Johnson after failed DOJ indictment: ‘Take a beat’
Slotkin mocks ‘good boy’ Mike Johnson after failed DOJ indictment: ‘Take a beat’
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) mocked House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as a “good boy” for President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he argued that she and five other congressional Democrats should be charged with obstruction.
“The speaker of the House should take a beat and remember why he’s there, and that our founding fathers designed this as a separate branch of government to provide checks and balances on the president, not salute like a good boy and do what he says every single time,” Slotkin told the Washington Examiner.
Her comments came hours after the Justice Department failed to secure a grand jury indictment against the congressional Democrats, two senators and four House members, who filmed a video urging service members to disobey illegal orders.
It’s not clear which charges the DOJ ultimately pursued, but Johnson responded to the failed indictment by reiterating that they should be prosecuted. Trump has accused Slotkin and her Democratic colleagues of “seditious behavior” over the video and previously suggested they should be put to death.
“I think that anytime you’re obstructing law enforcement and getting in the way of these sensitive operations, it’s a very serious thing, and it probably is a crime,” Johnson said on Tuesday evening.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), the other senator being scrutinized by the DOJ, joined Slotkin at a Wednesday morning press conference after the grand jury decision, vowing to keep “all of our legal options open” should the Trump administration decide to pursue the charges further.
The two also chided congressional Republicans for largely sidestepping an uproar over the investigation, which Democrats said is intended to chill free speech. Kelly disputed Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-SD) Wednesday assessment that the grand jury decision is an example of the “judicial system at work,” before pivoting to Johnson later in the press conference.
“I think Mike needs to go back to his office and seriously think about what he said publicly,” Kelly said.
“He’s the speaker of the House of Representatives. He’s one of the most powerful people in this country,” he added. “And if he’s going to side at every moment with this administration when they are clearly not on the side of the Constitution, I think he’s got to really evaluate why he is there and who he is really serving.”
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Kelly, a retired Navy captain, has separately sparred with War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who censured him in January over the video, arguing it “undermines good order and discipline in our Armed Forces.” Kelly is suing the Pentagon as it moves to lower his rank and cut his retirement pay.
His Democratic colleagues have separately refused to sit for interviews with the FBI related to the DOJ investigation. The White House has backed Hegseth’s decision, calling the video an attempt to sow “disorder and chaos” within the military.
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