Speaker Mike Johnson joined a cavalcade of top Republicans defending former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amid his New York criminal trial focused on hush money payments over an alleged affair in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
Johnson’s appearance outside the Manhattan courthouse, where he criticized the criminal case as a partisan attack on Trump, comes as the former president has closely tied his criticisms of the prosecutions to his run for reelection this year.
The courthouse-steps media appearances from Johnson and others this week are the latest effort from Trump’s congressional Republican allies to defend him during the criminal case in New York.
