{"id":2245813,"date":"2024-05-16T10:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrat-warns-johnson-over-trump-trial-visit\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T10:07:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:07:43","slug":"house-democrat-warns-johnson-over-trump-trial-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrat-warns-johnson-over-trump-trial-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic House member cautions Johnson about Trump trial visit"},"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\">18<\/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-democrat-warns-johnson-over-trump-trial-visit%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=2245813&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) managed to withstand a challenge from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to remove him from his position, with Democrats preventing her efforts. However, concerns were raised by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) who suggested that Democrats may have erred \u2064in stopping\u2064 the motion against Johnson. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) successfully defended his position against a challenge by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u200b (R-GA), with \u2063Democrats halting her attempts. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-expected-to-follow-up-race-based-admissions-decision-with-new-case-on-huge-issue-at-high-schools\/\" title=\"SCOTUS to tackle major high school issue after race-based admissions ruling.\">raised\u2062 concerns<\/a> that Democrats may have made a mistake by blocking the \u2062motion against\u200c Johnson.  <\/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 data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mike Johnson\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2973122\/marjorie-taylor-greene-moves-oust-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"survived\">survived<\/a> a bid by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to oust him from the speakership thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democrats\">Democrats<\/a> killing her effort, but some may be having second thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/speaker-mike-johnson-donald-trump-court-motion-to-oust-mtg-rcna152412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> NBC News he believes Democrats made a mistake by killing the motion to vacate against him, arguing Johnson\u2019s visit to former President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">trial<\/a> in Manhattan has exposed the House speaker\u2019s \u201ctrue colors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt showed his true colors and why, with good intentions, we made a mistake in strategically saving his job,\u201d Connolly said. \u201cBecause now we have enabled him to act with impunity like he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effort to oust Johnson was tabled by an overwhelming majority in a 359-43 bipartisan vote, with most Republicans and Democrats electing to keep Johnson in power rather than risk another long, bitter speaker election like in January and October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The House speaker told the outlet he does not think he will face another motion to vacate this year, noting how most members want a \u201cfunctioning Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I think most people in this building recognize is that the nation desperately needs a functioning Congress right now,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThese are very dangerous times in which we are living. We have hot wars going on around the globe. And we have all the unrest. Even here domestically, we\u2019ve had the open border, so we have a potentially very dangerous situation here on our own shores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johnson was one of several Republicans who have made the trek to Manhattan to support Trump as he attends his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other Republicans who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3002783\/team-trump-allies-former-president-hush-money-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"joined\">joined<\/a> Trump in New York City included Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) and Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and J.D. Vance (R-OH), along with Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Cory Mills (R-FL).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) retained his position after Democrats thwarted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s (R-GA) attempt to remove him. However, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) expressed concerns, suggesting Democrats erred in stopping the motion to vacate against Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2245814,"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\/05\/AP24135522776557.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245813","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\/05\/AP24135522776557.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245813","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\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}