Republican House speaker is in New York to attend Donald Trump’s hush-money trial
Good morning, US politics blog readers. With Donald Trump set to once again be the Republican nominee for president, speaker of the House Mike Johnson will this morning make an appearance in New York at his trial on charges of falsifying business documents to conceal hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election. According to his office, Johnson will spend time in the courtroom with the former president, and then decry Trump’s “sham” trial in a speech outside to the press.
The move by the rightwing speaker comes as the House GOP gears up to put Democrats on the spot by proposing a series of messaging bills that address divisive issues. Politico reports that one of these bills would prevent Joe Biden from freezing aid to Israel – a particularly contentious topic for Democrats as the president navigates a backlash to his support for its invasion of Gaza, as well as objections to his recent decision to stop some bomb shipments to the US ally.
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