1/11
@CalltoActivism
Mike Johnson tells Jake Tapper, "I don't think you want the House ethics committee investigating Jake Tapper or any other private citizen."
Wtf.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1858225984043929600/pu/vid/avc1/1080x578/cp15xQA8I4gJpQSB.mp4
2/11
@DianneCallaha16
Release the ethics report Mike. @SpeakerJohnson. The American people have a right to know if the people elected to public office or assigned to represent the country, have been involved in sex trafficking.
3/11
@RealTrollFeeder
they had no problem investigating Hunter.
4/11
@RoshanInsaf
Mike Johnson’s statement is a nonsensical and irrelevant deflection. Jake Tapper is a journalist, not a sitting member of Congress bound by House ethics rules. The ethics committee exists specifically to hold lawmakers accountable for misconduct—not to investigate private citizens. Johnson’s attempt to conflate the role of the ethics committee with some imagined overreach into journalists’ lives is both misleading and absurd. This type of rhetoric seems designed to distract from the actual issues at hand rather than engage in meaningful accountability or transparency. Instead of these baseless deflections, Johnson should focus on upholding the integrity of his office and ensuring the committee does its job properly.
5/11
@dikkey_V_Runs
If the report was complete before his resignation and only pending release, the investigation was into an elected official, not a private citizen.
6/11
@ValerieCS159
Matt Gaetz is a private citizen now? So let’s get this straight. You commit sex-trafficking, pedophilia & enable a criminal, but if you step down from your congressional seat, you’re now a private citizen & @SpeakerJohnson won’t investigate you?
The corruption knows no bounds!
7/11
@BadrobotLinda
Hey Jake. Normalizing Trump brought this on.
8/11
@Dog_House_Show
If you have nothing to hide release the report!!
9/11
@SitaRose27
Elected Reps in the House should be subjected to ethics investigations. We should see the results.
10/11
@gregmcantwell
He’s seen the report and knows how bad it is.
11/11
@RandyShulman
The fact that they're couching Gaetz as a private citizen shows their ploy even more nakedly than before.
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