George Conway, a former Republican lawyer, made a sarcastic remark on social media on Saturday about what a “massive” gift newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is to House Democrats.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican and constitutional law attorney, was elected as speaker on Wednesday, receiving rare unanimous support from his Republican peers after weeks of turmoil. After Representative Kevin McCarthy of California was removed from the office by a floor vote on a motion to vacate, the House GOP struggled to find a candidate who could muster the needed votes from the polarized caucus.
After becoming speaker, Johnson has received criticism from some about his extremely conservative views on religion.
On Saturday, Jennifer Bendery, a senior politics reporter at HuffPost, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “Mike Johnson’s wife runs a counseling service that compares being gay to bestiality and incest. The new House speaker and his wife, Kelly, have …