{"id":2240743,"date":"2024-05-09T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-blames-biden-having-senior-moment-for-israel-aid-decision-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:59:18","slug":"mike-johnson-blames-biden-having-senior-moment-for-israel-aid-decision-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-blames-biden-having-senior-moment-for-israel-aid-decision-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson attributes Israel aid decision to Biden&#8217;s &#8216;senior moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-johnson-blames-biden-having-senior-moment-for-israel-aid-decision-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2240743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed concerns about President Joe Biden&#8217;s threat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-fact-checker-extraordinaire-daniel-dale-disappears-proving-that-facts-dont-matter-quite-as-much-in-bidens-america\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Fact-Checker \u2018Extraordinaire\u2019 Daniel Dale Disappears, Proving That Facts Don\u2019t Matter Quite As Much In Biden\u2019s America\">withhold aid<\/a> from\u200c Israel, questioning if it was related to cognitive decline. In an\u200c interview with Politico, Johnson, having\u200c recently thwarted a speaker removal attempt, was shocked \u2063by \u200cBiden&#8217;s statement on cutting off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-to-a-bad-start-putin-schools-biden-with-one-phone-call\/\" title=\"Off to a Bad START: Putin Schools Biden with One Phone Call\">offensive weapons<\/a> supply \u200bto Israel. Johnson found Biden&#8217;s position contradictory to their recent conversations, hinting at a possible slip-up.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mike Johnson\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) questioned whether President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden's\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> comments threatening to withhold aid from Israel were due to cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/09\/johnson-slams-bidens-senior-moment-on-israel-aid-00156994?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=b184d69e-b2a2-4eb9-933e-7e669f36c25d&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"interview\">interview<\/a> with <em>Politico<\/em>, Johnson, fresh off defeating an effort to unseat him as speaker, expressed shock over Biden\u2019s remarks Wednesday night, in which the president said the United States would cut off the flow of offensive weapons to Israel if it went through with its invasion of Rafah. The House speaker said it was so foreign to the sentiment expressed in private conversations that he believes Biden may have slipped up.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>President Joe Biden, with from left, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), pray and listen during the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd my reaction honestly was: Wow, that is a complete turn from what I have been told even in, you know, recent hours,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI mean, 24 hours ago, it was confirmed to me by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2020-trump-campaign-attorney-says-pence-may-ask-state-lawmakers-to-decide-election\/\" title=\"2020 Trump campaign attorney says Pence may ask state lawmakers to decide election\">top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-big-here-we-go-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings-biden-team-unaware-of-directive\/\" title=\"BREAKING BIG: Here We Go \u2014 Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings \u2014 Biden Team Unaware of Directive\">administration officials<\/a><\/a> that the policy\u2019s very different than what he stated there. So I hope that\u2019s a senior moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope \u2014 I believe he\u2019s off script,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s something that staff told him to say. I hope it\u2019s a senior moment because that would be a great deviation in what is said to be the policy there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House speaker added that administration officials had assured him previously that initial reports that aid could be cut off in the event of a Rafah invasion weren\u2019t accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the SCIF having classified discussions with some top administration officials,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cMy concern was we got word about these, you know, this shipment of munitions being delayed. And that was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmaker-needs-biden-admin-disclose-key-iran-talks-with-china\/\" title=\"Lawmaker Needs Biden Admin Disclose Key Iran Talks with China\">great concern<\/a> to us because I got commitments from top administration officials before we passed the supplemental package for the aid to Israel that that would not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described a confused back-and-forth over Israeli aid, moving him to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yesterday, I talked with Prime Minister Netanyahu about it, and I wanted to get confirmation from him exactly what\u2019s happening. And he described exactly what was happening before the news was confirmed,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI went straight to the White House, and I said, \u2018What gives? Somebody\u2019s going to have to explain this to me because it\u2019s very different than what I was told.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added that he felt betrayed by the turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson wasn\u2019t alone in his harsh criticism of Biden over his remarks, with many Republicans expressing outrage over the move. Some erstwhile allies joined Republicans in criticizing the president over the decision, such as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raised concerns about President Biden&#8217;s threat to withhold aid from Israel, suggesting it could be linked to cognitive decline. Following a Politico interview after fending off a speaker removal attempt, Johnson was surprised by Biden&#8217;s Wednesday statement hinting at aid cuts to Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2240744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24075651752757-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24075651752757-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}