House Speaker Mike Johnson discusses NBC News' Kristen Welker pressing him on former President Trump's medical records on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

One year ago, the House of Representatives was freed from a three-week period of internal turmoil when Republicans voted for Mike Johnson to be Speaker of the House.

At the time, the leftist media raged and clutched their pearls at the idea that a true conservative would rise to the second-most important job in Washington. The progressive media threw everything at Speaker Johnson hoping something would stick. They called him "hard-right," attacked the American flags he had outside his office, and mocked his religious beliefs. Democratic strategist James Carville even made the ludicrous claim that Johnson’s Christian faith was more dangerous to America than Al Qaeda.

As former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote at the time, "It is only shocking to liberals that Republicans elected a speaker who shares many of the views held by their voters," because in Washington, "many elected officials promptly forget their voters and campaign promises five minutes after the polls close."

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Today, a year after the left exploded with hysteria and hatred for Speaker Johnson – and the media started its continuous drumbeat of merciless false attacks--House Republicans should recognize the strength, resolve, leadership, and political acumen of Speaker Johnson.

After being sworn in, Speaker Johnson indicated that he sought to preserve, and govern according to, his "seven........

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