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House Speaker Mike Johnson Skirts Question on Personal Bank Account (www.thedailybeast.com)

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded on Sunday to a report by The Daily Beast that highlighted his apparent lack of a bank account on his financial disclosure.

The response, however, did not actually answer whether he had one.

Fox News Sunday moderator Shannon Bream pressed Johnson on whether he had a bank account, citing a Vanity Fair write-up of The Daily Beast’s report and noting that “there’s been so much made about it.”

“Can you clear that up for us?” Bream asked.

Johnson did not.

“Look, I’m a man of modest means,” Johnson said. “I was a lawyer, but I did constitutional law, and most of my career has been in the nonprofit sector. We have four kids, five now, that are very active. And I have kids in graduate school, law school, undergraduate. We have a lot of expenses, but I can relate to everybody else. My father was a firefighter, right? I didn’t grow up with great means. But I think that helps us to be a better leader because we can relate to every hard-working American family. That’s who we are. And I think it governs and helps govern my decisions and how I lead.”

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[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

He's been in government since 2017 or earlier, and gov jobs require electronic payment. Period. I have no idea how this motherfucker can get paid by the federal government without a bank account.

Please someone explain.

[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

If the Rs are going to continue supporting Santos and Clarence Thomas, they're not going to do shit to this NatC for doing far less.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

If the Rs are going to continue supporting Santos and Clarence Thomas, they’re not going to do shit to this NatC for doing far less.

well, yeah, they're fascists. they still support trump.

I still want to know how this fucker gets paid by the federal gov without a goddamned bank account. In the 90s the army finally forced everyone onto direct deposit and that was one of the last federal programs to finally get electronic payment going iirc. Direct Deposit doesn't work without a bank lol

[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I meant to imply that he absolutely has accounts and is simply committing an ethics violation by not reporting them. There's no way a white collar person can exist in society without having a bank account, especially given your point that direct deposit is a requirement for him specifically. The only people that can do anything about it is the majority party in the House, and they don't care.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

The only people that can do anything about it is the majority party in the House, and they don’t care.

yep, there's only republican accountability for non republicans. and women. and lgbtqs. and people with melanin. or in a minority situation.

yep. fuckers

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe a shared account with his wife?

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

according to the reporting there's no bank account in his, his wife's, or his kids' names. No trust, no assets, nothing.

[-] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Something's rotten (and it's not in Denmark this time)!

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