Mike Johnson skips vital US House session to support Trump in New York
by Martin Pengelly and Chris Stein in Washington and from US news | The Guardian on (#6MSQQ)
House speaker makes appearance outside court where former president is on trial over hush-money payments to adult film star
The US House was in session on Tuesday with vital business to complete but its speaker, Mike Johnson, was 200 miles north, attending another day in the criminal trial of Donald Trump, the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee charged over hush-money payments to an adult film star who claimed an affair.
President Trump is innocent of these charges," Johnson said outside court in Manhattan, where Trump faces the first 34 of 88 criminal counts.
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