Speaker Mike Johnson has been busted making bogus claims that has stayed out of President Donald Trump’s effort to lock in control of the House by redrawing red states’ political maps.
The speaker—who has developed a reputation for regularly appearing to feign ignorance about what the president is up to—has claimed for months that he’s not directly involved in Trump’s push to draw new, gerrymandered congressional districts mid-cycle.
But now a Republican, Indiana state Senate president pro tempore Rodric Bray, has revealed how Johnson intervened to push him to redraw his state’s political maps to favor Republicans.
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