Johnson Rejects Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Demand To Shut Down Jack Smith’s Trump Prosecution, but Calls for ‘Accountability’
The speaker’s candor in an interview came just hours after he defeated a motion to remove him from his job by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wants Smith’s office defunded.
In a sign of confidence after defeating a motion to remove Speaker Johnson from his position, the House speaker says he will not push to shut down the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith during this year’s budget negotiations, a demand made by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Congressman Thomas Massie, who had moved to unseat him. The speaker, though, says he does want “accountability” regarding Mr. Smith.
In an interview with Politico on Wednesday, the speaker said he could not simply shut down the special counsel’s prosecution on a whim, even if he wanted to. “That’s not something you wave a wand and just eliminate the special counsel as a provision,” Mr. Johnson said. “There is a necessity for a function like that, because sometimes the Department of Justice — which is an executive branch agency — can’t necessarily, without a conflict of interest, investigate or prosecute the president who’s their boss, or the president’s family.”
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