{"id":2244090,"date":"2024-05-14T09:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-to-attend-hush-money-trial-in-show-of-support-for-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:48:35","slug":"house-speaker-mike-johnson-to-attend-hush-money-trial-in-show-of-support-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-to-attend-hush-money-trial-in-show-of-support-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Mike Johnson to Attend Trump&#8217;s Hush-Money Trial in Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fhouse-speaker-mike-johnson-to-attend-hush-money-trial-in-show-of-support-for-trump%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=2244090&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, a Republican from Louisiana, will be at the Manhattan courthouse to support\u2064 former President Donald Trump in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weve-identified-450000-ballots-that-miraculously-only-have-a-vote-for-joe-biden-sidney-powell-drops-a-bomb-on-sunday-morning-futures-video\/\" title=\"\"We've Identified 450,000 Ballots that Miraculously ONLY have a Vote for Joe Biden\" - Sidney Powell Drops a BOMB on Sunday Morning Futures (Video)\">legal battles<\/a>.\u2063 Reports from MSNBC and CNN confirm Johnson&#8217;s attendance, as per the Republican speaker&#8217;s office and Fox News. Trump&#8217;s allies, including Vivek Ramaswamy, are \u2062also expected to join him. Trump faces\u200d challenges with a gag order and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-rips-well-known-democrat-judge-for-threatening-trump-with-jail-time\/\" title=\"Mike Johnson criticizes a prominent Democratic judge for threatening Trump with imprisonment\">repeated fines<\/a>. House\u200c Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, will stand by former President Donald\u200b Trump at the Manhattan court amid legal disputes. MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News report his support. Trump anticipates backing from allies like Vivek\u2063 Ramaswamy. Challenges include a gag order and fines due to order violations.  <\/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<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be at the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday morning to show his support for former President Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee continues his battle in court.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s plan to join Trump at the courthouse was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe\/status\/1790350560966611144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1790351294831399334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, while the Republican speaker\u2019s office confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/speaker-johnson-attend-trump-trial-manhattan-show-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> that he would be in attendance at the New York hush-money trial. Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is also expected to appear at the Manhattan courthouse alongside Trump on Tuesday, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker\u2019s show of solidarity with Trump amidst his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-doubles-down-on-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Biden admin. doubles down on vaccine mandate\">ongoing legal battles<\/a> comes after the former president was joined at the Manhattan courthouse last week by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and on Monday by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH). Trump\u2019s Republican allies have shown up to support the former president at the courthouse as Trump is under a gag order, which was placed on him by Judge Juan Merchan. The former president has already been fined 10 times for violating the gag order, and he was threatened with jail time if he violates the judge\u2019s order again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-garland-to-make-statement-on-mar-a-lago-raid\/\" title=\"AG Garland to Make Statement on Mar-a-Lago Raid\">single person involved<\/a> in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative,\u201d Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-court-allies-jd-vance-2666cc432e5291e8fa7dd7fba9c2ffad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> outside the courthouse on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senator J.D. Vance: &#8220;Michael Cohen is the prosecution&#8217;s star witness. This guy is a convicted felon\u2026every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative\u2026What&#8217;s going on inside that courtroom is a threat to American democracy\u2026&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h3R1xzb5JM\">pic.twitter.com\/h3R1xzb5JM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAGAIncWarRoom\/status\/1790054585056235592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump\u2019s former lawyer Michael Cohen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ex-lawyer-for-former-president-donald-trump-testifies-that-he-secretly-recorded-him-before-2016-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testified<\/a> in the hush-money trial on Monday and said that he secretly recorded Trump before the 2016 election while he was working for him. Cohen said that the recorded conversation with Trump was about a supposed payment to former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker over an alleged affair between Trump and model Karen McDougal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s ex-lawyer is set to testify again on Tuesday. In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple crimes \u2014 including lying to Congress \u2014 and spent time in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has focused much of his case against Trump on Trump\u2019s alleged relationships with McDougal and porn actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up an alleged affair with Daniels.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712242396228000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3WzjrNXCr1KblP2z8dS_jB\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has slammed the Manhattan trial as a political witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p><em>Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will attend the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday in support of former President Donald Trump. The gesture comes as Trump faces legal challenges as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. MSNBC and CNN reported Johnson&#8217;s plan to stand with Trump, confirmed by the Republican speaker&#8217;s office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2244091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2148449818-scaled-e1715690371683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2148449818-scaled-e1715690371683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244090","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}