The new House leader lists no bank accounts, including checking or savings, on financial disclosure forms going back to 2016.

The new House leader lists no bank accounts, including checking or savings, on financial disclosure forms going back to 2016.

In the week since Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the House, we’ve learned a tremendous amount about the Louisiana Republican, and virtually none of it has been good. For instance, the man the GOP just elevated to one of the most powerful jobs in the federal government tried to help Donald Trump steal a second term, is virulently antiabortion, thinks America doesn’t have a gun problem, very possibly does not believe in evolution, definitely doesn’t believe in separation of church and state, has claimed homosexuality is “sinful” and “destructive,” and is married to someone who founded a company that equates being gay with bestiality and incest. And now, for something totally different, we’ve learned the new House Speaker…doesn’t have any bank accounts listed on his financial disclosure forms.

The Daily Beast reports that in financial disclosures dating back to 2016, the year he joined Congress, Johnson never reported having a savings or checking account in his name, his spouse’s name, or in the name of any of his children. In his latest filing, which covers last year, he doesn’t list a single asset either. Which, given that he made more than $200,000 last year—in addition to his wife’s salary—is more than a little odd.

  • BigDanishGuy
    302·
    1 year ago

    Mike Johnson is such a devout Christian that he of course has followed Luke 12:33:

    Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

    It’s just that he also remembers Matthew 6:2:

    Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

    And Matthew 6:6:

    But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    As well as John 12:49:

    For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it.

    And thusly knows to stay quiet about his charity. What a nice guy!

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      They are highly selective in their reading of “the” bible.

      I always like to remind xtians they should listen to their own text and keep it in their closet, as commanded. Certainly, they have not read the Constitution, either. It’s pretty clear this government was set up as a SECULAR one and they need to keep their little book club’s rules out of our government. Any laws have to have a secular grounding, not a superstitious one.

      • BigDanishGuy
        1·
        1 year ago

        They are highly selective in their reading of “the” bible.

        I think everyone reads the Bible selectively … I mean I’ve never tried to sell my kids into slavery and I’ve never stoned anyone for working on a Sunday. But I do like the parts I quoted above.

        All the more reason to keep your beliefs private and not using them to argue for anything that impacts anyone else.

        I would like to know what parts of the Bible Mike Johnson finds especially important though. Instead of hiding behind the umbrella that is being a self-proclaimed Christian, you should be expected to tell people what kind of Christian you are. Like are you really into the ten commandments, corporeal punishment, and enforcing Leviticus as if it wasn’t just rules meant for the clergy? Or do you think that what Jesus said supercedes the old testament when there are conflicts? And if you’re not willing to do that then please stop claiming to represent Christian values as whole, because that is not a well defined set.