DID SPEAKER JOHNSON ADMIT TO PLOTTING AFEDERAL FELONY?

This an excerpt from the December 5 statement by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), aka “MAGA Mike,” on the pending release to the public of footage from the insurrection of January 6, 2021:

“We have to blur some faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ.”

Click here to listen to Johnson’s entire rant.

(He’s not living in the same universe as the rest of us.)

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), aka MAGA Mike. Every time we think it’s not possible for the GOP to come up with a crazy who is even further to the right than the last crazy, they surprise us and show it is easily possible. (Image courtesy NBC News.)

This is how the United States Department of Justice defines obstruction:

Section 1505 of Title 18, United States Code, as amended by the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982, forbids anyone from corruptly, or by threats of force or by any threatening communication, influencing, obstructing, or impeding any pending proceeding before a department or agency of the United States, or Congress. In 1996 Congress enacted a clarifying amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 1515, which defines the term “corruptly” as used in section 1505 to mean “acting with an improper purpose, personally or by influencing another, including making a false or misleading statement, or…