Mike Johnson Was Questioned About Trump’s $230M DOJ Demand — And His Reaction Was Quite Telling

He acted like it was a completely normal request.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Trump has filed administrative complaints against the DOJ over the investigations for 2016 Russian interference claims and for mishandled classified information.

“Well, I guess they probably owe me a lot of money for that,” he said on Tuesday hours after the Times story broke. “Probably, yeah, that’s true. That’s very interesting. No, I get no salary. I gave up my salary. It’s a good salary.”

Anyone hoping that the House speaker would speak out against paying Trump the sum was probably disappointed by his reaction when asked about it on Tuesday.

“Uh, I don’t know the details about that. I just read it. I didn’t talk with him about that,” he said. “I know he believes he’s owed that reimbursement.”

Johnson then contradicted his professed lack of knowledge on the proposed payout by noting that “what I heard yesterday was if he receives it, he was gonna consider giving it to charity, he doesn’t need those proceeds.”

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misattributed a quote said by David Urban.