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Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson wrote the ahead to a 2022 ebook loaded with debunked conspiracy theories and homophobic slurs. In his foreword to Scott McKay’s The Revivalist Manifesto, Johnson says the creator “has managed right here to articulate effectively what thousands and thousands of conscientious, freedom-loving People are sensing.”

Listed below are only a few of the issues within the ebook that Johnson thinks thousands and thousands of conscientious, freedom-loving People are sensing:

• The ebook insinuates that hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 marketing campaign chairman contained coded references to youngster intercourse trafficking, suggesting involvement within the Pizzagate scandal.
• It implies that Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice John Roberts was blackmailed and linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
• It defends podcaster Joe Rogan in opposition to racism expenses following his use of the N-word, for which Rogan later apologized.
• It makes use of derogatory language to explain Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, together with calling him “brazenly, and obnoxiously, homosexual” and different homophobic phrases.
• It propagates the debunked idea that the Democratic Nationwide Committee’s emails have been leaked by a staffer named Seth Wealthy, not hacked.
• It denies the hyperlink between carbon dioxide and local weather change, mocking the local weather disaster as “hysteria.”
• It criticizes the late Senator John McCain, suggesting he used his time as a prisoner of battle in Vietnam for political achieve.

Johnson liked the ebook a lot that “in 2022, he actively promoted the ebook on his public social media platforms and even devoted an episode of his podcast he co-hosts together with his spouse to internet hosting McKay,” reviews CNN. On the podcast, Johnson stated,  “I clearly imagine within the product, or I would not have written the foreword. So I endorse the work.”

Quick ahead to 2023, and Johnson is singing a special tune. A spokesman for Johnson advised CNN that Johnson did not know what he was endorsing. “The Speaker had by no means learn the passages highlighted within the CNN story which he strongly disagrees with,” stated the spokesperson. “He wrote the foreword as a favor to a pal, supportive of the overall theme of the ebook however not as an endorsement of all of the opinions expressed.”

In MAGA land,”I endorse this” means “I do not endorse this.”