House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), on Tuesday, June 4, laid out a Republican game plan to attack the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) following a Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict on 34 criminal courts in former President Donald Trump’s hush money/falsified business records trial. The Manhattan case had nothing to do the DOJ, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland or special counsel Jack Smith; it was a New York State case prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., and Trump was found guilty in a state court — not a federal court. However, Smith is prosecuting two federal c…
