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Mike Johnson: “President Trump...they went after President Trump…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

Speaker Johnson Joins Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union

Published September 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:49

Okay, look, everyone knows this. This is not even a matter of dispute. Hunter was going to go to jail. President Trump, even when he was not President Trump...they went after President Trump criminally, civilly. They tried to just ruin him, destroy him, because they didn't want him to run for president again. I mean, there are volumes written about this, Jake, and you and I both know that that's true. (07:49–11:41)

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Asserts that legal actions were taken against Donald Trump to prevent him from running for president again.

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