House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded on Sunday to a report by The Daily Beast that highlighted his apparent lack of a bank account on his financial disclosure.
The response, however, did not actually answer whether he had one.
Fox News Sunday moderator Shannon Bream pressed Johnson on whether he had a bank account, citing a Vanity Fair write-up of The Daily Beast’s report and noting that “there’s been so much made about it.”
“Can you clear that up for us?” Bream asked.
Johnson did not.
“Look, I’m a man of modest means,” Johnson said. “I was a lawyer, but I did constitutional law, and most of my career has been in the nonprofit sector. We have four kids, five now, that are very active. And I have kids in graduate school, law school, undergraduate. We have a lot of expenses, but I can relate to everybody else. My father was a firefighter, right? I didn’t grow up with great means. But I think that helps us to be a better leader because we can relate to every hard-working American family. That’s who we are. And I think it governs and helps govern my decisions and how I lead.”
Talk about a real-time update. “OH, THIS JUST IN, SHE’S POPPED OUT ANOTHER ONE!” Or did he just briefly forget about the black one?
Forgot to round up
If it was a normal person I would cut him some slack. Your memory goes to shit when you are a parent about kid stuff. Kids go from potato to walking talking eating machines in a year. There are moments when you see them do something and you are like “how are you bicycling, I feel like I just changed your diaper about a month ago?”.
To be fair, he was probably thinking about the children that he has to spend real money on, and not the young/newborn(?) one who’s expenses are very modest at this point in comparison.