‘God Spared His Life’: Johnson Speaks On US ‘Tinderbox’

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told “Washington Watch” host Tony Perkins Monday that America has been a “tinderbox” for some time.

The reason “is because the rhetoric has been so hot. I mean, I pointed out … on CNN just a few moments before the president went live with his remarks, and I told the group there, I said, ‘Listen, it is a fact that our Democrat[ic] colleagues have painted Donald Trump out to be the enemy of freedom.’ I mean, they use this language all the time. If he’s elected, it’s the end of democracy. It’s the end of the republic. You … tell people that enough, and they begin to actually believe it. And it spurs on [to] what has now become political violence. Now there are offenders on both sides of the aisle, of course. And I’m the first to point that out. And I’ve been doing that consistently since I got to Congress.”

Johnson spoke to Perkins two days after an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump left him with a bullet wound in his ear. The attack killed one man and injured two others.  (LEARN MORE: Democrat Donor Spent $80M To ‘Silence’ Americans)

‘God Alone’

“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” Trump said less than 24 hours after the attack. “I rarely look away from the crowd,” he admitted. “Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?”

“I’ve been so heartened to see his thoughts and comments articulated over the last day or so since the assassination attempt. He seems to have a very clear view of what this meant. God spared his life. I mean, it was a miracle. We all saw it. Everyone saw it. It’s hard to deny,” Johnson said of Trump’s reaction to the attack. (LEARN MORE: State Finds County Violated Election Law In 2022)

“He said … ‘God has given me a chance here — and that is to unify the country.’ [Those are] his words, not mine. So I’m really excited to see how he articulates that and how we meet it out,” Johnson added.

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