And, yes, things got brutal.
On Tuesday, the Louisiana Republican announced he would vote to release Department of Justice files related to the late sex offender.
Rep. Eric Swalwell had a theory that he offered on social media that was pretty vicious.
“Daddy gave you permission??” Swalwell asked.
Swalwell’s post referred to Johnson’s tendency to cheerlead the president, who himself drastically switched positions on the files earlier this week. Trump had been working behind the scenes to stop a vote from happening. But on Sunday, he relented, as it appeared likely that a large number of Republicans would defect and vote in favor of the files’ release.
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Not surprisingly, Swalwell wasn’t the only one to mock Johnson’s switcheroo.
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