Critics condemn ‘sinister’ remark that suggests potential Trump-Mike Johnson plot to settle contested election
“We gotta get the congressmen elected and we gotta get the senators elected,”“We can take the Senate pretty easily, and I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House. Our little secret is having a big impact. He and I have a little secret – we will tell you what it is when the race is over.”
“Why did Donald Trump come to New York nine days before the election? The state is going to go to Kamala Harris,” Goldman said. “On January 6, the certification of the electoral college will happen again, and as we know from 2021, whoever is in control of the House of Congress will have a lot of say on what happens on January 6. I suspect Donald Trump’s little secret plan with Mike Johnson is a backup plan for when he loses and he tries to go to theThe situation under a Republican-controlled Congress would be a reverse of the certification process that followed the 2020 election, Goldman said.
Johnson, a constitutional lawyer, played a key role in Trump’s attempt to reverse Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, supporting a Texas lawsuit that attempted to overturn the results in four swing states. He also voted with 146 other Republicans in Congress in favour of overturning the results.On Monday, he responded obliquely to accusations that he and Trump were planning a repeat scenario but did not deny it – instead switching the focus to supposed “secrets” the Democrats had withheld.
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