For Immediate Release
July 25, 2024
Contact: Taylor Haulsee
WASHINGTON — Today, Speaker Johnson joined Fox News’ America’s Newsroom after he and Rep. Brandon Williams led several House Republicans to raise American flags at Union Station last night after anti-American and anti-Jewish rioters burned the American flag, raised Palestinian flags, and defaced statues with pro-Hamas slogans during Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
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On raising the American flag at Union Station:
It was an important moment. I think it’s appropriate for the elected representatives of the people. I was gathered there with patriots and veterans who served our country, and a military representative, Brandon Williams of New York, had the idea to go out there and put the American flag back in its rightful place. We cannot allow the pro-terrorist mobs to win. They’re trying to intimidate Jewish people and all those who support Israel and we will not stand for it, so it was a proud moment for us.
On President Biden’s withdrawing from the ballot:
Look, first of all, he didn’t heroically pass the torch. They ripped it out of his hand, and for the party that professes to be the party of small d-democracy they did exactly the opposite. They disenfranchised 14 million voters that they have that worked through their primary systems to make Joe Biden the nominee, but they decided that he wasn’t suited anymore, so they replaced him with Kamala without any real political process there. It’s outrageous what’s happened there.
On Adversaries Seeing Weakness from the White House:
Iran and China and Russia and North Korea may see this as an opportunity, and I take every opportunity that I’m talking to look right into the camera and say, “do not mistake this, the United States Congress, the United States military and the American people are ready and resolved to act in our interest at any time.” So the drama surrounding Joe Biden should not be equated with weakness on the part of the American people. We will stand for the truth and that’s why I’m glad we had Prime Minister Netanyahu here yesterday.
On Kamala Harris’ Cover-Up of Biden’s Declining Mental Acuity
Dana, it’s the largest cover up in American political history and the most damaging and consequential. She knows, Kamala Harris of course knows, she’s spent a lot of time with him. She boasted about how she was at his side all the time – making all these terrible policy decisions by the way, which is why she clearly is the co-author and the co-owner of all this disaster. But she knew of course. She was meeting with him regularly. She knew he was not on his A-game, and she and other leading Democrats went day after day, time after time onto the news stations and looked into the cameras and told us a lie.
They said “Oh, he’s on his A-game, he does intellectual runs intellectual circles around us.” I mean, listening to them, you would have thought he was going to compete in the Olympics. They knew it wasn’t true. And they hoisted a dramatic and really impactful lie among upon the American people, gaslighting everybody day by day and they painted themselves into this corner, where now they have Kamala Harris as their nominee for president. Look, I think this election is going to be about policies, not personalities. And if you line up the policies and the records of the Trump administration and the Biden-Harris administration side by side it is no contest. ###