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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Big Lie 2.0: Johnson joins Trump to concoct new false narrative for 2024

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Plus, A very bad week for know-nothing Kari Lake

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0:00.0

When Donald Trump first refused to concede the election in 2020,

0:05.0

Republicans in Congress didn't really know what to do with it.

0:08.6

At the time, a lot of Republicans just kept their mouth shut,

0:11.5

hoping that Trump would eventually give up.

0:15.2

But there were also the Republicans who went all in,

0:18.2

who started scheming with the Trump White House

0:20.6

about how to keep Joe Biden from being certified as the duly elected

0:24.0

president.

0:25.2

And there was one congressman in particular who was way out in front of that effort, organizing

0:30.9

a number of his colleagues to sign on to a highly dubious

0:34.7

lawsuit challenging Biden's victory in four key swing states.

0:40.3

Republican lawmakers are getting behind the suit, leading that effort on Capitol Hill

0:45.2

as Congressman Mike Johnson.

0:46.6

Let's talk about the suit.

0:47.6

What's behind it?

0:48.6

There is a lot of irregularity, fraud, and hijinks, let's be frank about it.

0:53.2

Look, we're going to have a landslide of House Republicans who are going to sign on to

0:58.3

our amicus brief to support this.

1:00.6

Mike Johnson, then a little known congressman from Louisiana, was the driving force behind

1:05.2

congressional Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

1:09.6

He was the architect of a key part of Trump's legal strategy in trying to get election

1:14.5

results thrown out. And when House Republicans eventually ousted Speaker Kevin

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