Liberal Forum

The Moment Speaker Mike Johnson Knew Biden Wasn't "In Charge" Anymore​

During an interview with Bari Weiss on Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson told a story about an interaction he had with President Biden in January 2024 that led him to believe Biden wasn't "in charge" anymore.

"They wouldn’t let me meet with him. His staff kept giving excuses. This went on for like eight or nine weeks. I was told, 'I’m sorry, Mr. Speaker, he doesn’t have time.' What are you talking about? I’m second in line to the presidency, he has time. I need to talk to him," Johnson began.

He said when he finally got a moment alone with the president, he asked why he had banned the export of liquefied natural gas to Europe and Biden, "looks at me, stunned, and says, I didn’t do that... He's arguing with me."


"What I did is I signed this thing to, we’re going to conduct a study on the effects of LNG," Johnson said Biden told him.

"It occurred to me, he was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed."

"I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, We’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country? I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know."

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