Dem committee posts false information painting speaker nominee as ‘MAGA extremist’

A House Democrat committee posted false information attempting to paint GOP speaker nominee Mike Johnson as a “MAGA extremist.”

The House Judiciary Democrats’s attempt to blast Johnson in a tweet before Wednesday’s floor vote for the speaker’s gavel backfired when they claimed he was a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

“Rep. Mike Johnson is a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus, which has pushed a budget proposal to defund the FBI,” the tweet reads.

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The tweet from the party, whose members pushed defunding the police,

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