Does House Speaker Mike Johnson ever read the news?

On Tuesday, he played dumb about news that a man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot has been rearrested after allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

“I don't know any of the details of this at all,” Johnson said, falling back on his often-used excuse of being ignorant of national events. “I will say that anybody—anybody—who threatens political violence against elected officials or anyone else should have the full weight and measure of the Department of Justice on their head. I trust that’ll happen. I hope it will. We are intellectually consistent about that.”

But Johnson was not done shoveling the BS, adding, “I will tell you this: The violence on the left is

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