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Does New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Have a Bank Account? (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 96 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

House Ethics Committee filing guidelines state that members must disclose bank accounts they have at every financial institution, as long as the account holds at least $1,000 and the combined value of all accounts—including those belonging to their spouse and dependent children—exceeds $5,000.

Dude is either a broke Republican, he's hiding his money in offshore accounts, or he's donating so much money to his church that he's effectively broke.

Either way, he's doing it wrong.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

He has to be able to afford those suits. He's hiding his money.

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If there is a plausible scenario that involves him straight-up lying, not giving a single fuck and telling anyone who is asking that they can go fuck themselves - well, that's the explanation I would go with.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Simplest answer something something

[-] Hypx@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

There's zero chance he's a broke Republican.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Broke Republicans exist. They’re just not the ones in elected office. They’re the ones being duped by the ones in elected office.

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago

Or he is "buried gold" level unhinged.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 17 points 10 months ago

And if that's true, that's an asset and would constitute an ethics violation. I sincerely hope it's that one, and we can start calling him "Pirate Mike."

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Whatever the reason, it's probably not good.

[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 64 points 10 months ago

Everyone remember when Senator Menendez's home was searched and they found hundreds of thousands in cash and gold bars - and he tried to explain it away with a bogus story about his family's fear of banks?

Just sayin' ....

[-] RePsyche@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Hmm, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he had some shenanigans going on.

[-] spaceghoti@lemmy.one 46 points 10 months ago

He's a Christian nationalist evangelical. Of course he has shenanigans going on.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

Christofascist you mean?

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Potato potato

[-] ForestOrca@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

GIF GIF

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago

It’s for those who think the first sentence has too many words.

[-] spaceghoti@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago

Succinctly, yes.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At first it thought it was going to be about how biblical takes on interest is that it’s fucking evil.

I’m disappointed that it’s just “mere” corruption.

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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