House Speaker Johnson received more than half a million dollars from pro-Israel PAC according to an FEC report, naturalnews.com reports.

House Speaker Johnson received over $500,000 from an anti-Israel PAC according to FEC records.

An account with the handle AIPAC Tracker recently disclosed that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to an FEC report, has already received over $524,000 from AIPAC and other Israel lobby entities since 2013. This revelation came via AIPAC Tracker on Twitter X account. The Federal Election Commission’s primary purpose is enforcing campaign finance laws during US federal elections; so this discovery provided further proof.
“The Speaker of the House is working for a foreign entity. #RejectAIPAC,” was one such post made on what used to be known as Twitter. AIPAC Tracker keeps tabs on American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Israel lobby groups and their antidemocratic influence in American politics. Johnson had already faced allegations regarding large donations he accepted from pro-Israel lobby groups to lobby for approval of an enormous $14 billion aid package for Israel in Congress. This latest revelation only compounds these previous claims of his. Assailing House speaker Johnson for what they perceive to be his corruptive actions, many X users responded in outraged thread responses by labelling him either a foreign agent or “Judas”, an allusion to one of Jesus’ 12 apostles infamous for selling information about Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. FEC Report on Speaker Mike Johnson shows he has now accepted over $524K from AIPAC/Israel lobby since becoming Speaker in 2024. #RejectAIPAC pic.twitter.com/OgbsOCotwk — AIPAC Tracker (@TrackAIPAC). April 25 2024.
AIPAC was reported by the FEC as having donated approximately $95,000 in support of his effort to pass Israel a $14 billion aid package last November, according to separate analysis conducted on their donations by AIPAC. Johnson was appointed speaker after far-right Republican lawmakers removed Kevin McCarthy as speaker on grounds that he had been too accommodating in negotiations between Republicans and Democratic lawmakers over issues including fiscal budgeting as well as other disputes between their two parties. Johnson is widely seen as an experienced Christian nationalist backbencher. (Related: House Speaker Johnson to Introduce Four Bills on Foreign Aid to Ukraine and Israel for Nearly $90 Billion.). We’re creating infrastructure of human freedom while equipping individuals to be informed, healthy and aware. Explore Brighteon.io, our decentralized peer-to-peer free speech platform which is uncensorable, as well as learn more about its free generative AI tools that you can download at Brighteon.AI. With every purchase at HealthRangerStore.com, our purchases help fund HealthRanger’s efforts in creating tools to empower humanity with knowledge and abundance. A previous report detailed that AIPAC’s political action committee (PAC) gave Johnson $104,000 last year; most payments came since the outbreak of Gaza war fighting and his appointment as speaker of the house in late October. As reported by The Intercept, that amount is almost four times what his political action committee contributed in 2012 when they were his top donor and donated approximately $25,000. AIPAC is widely recognized as a key influencer on Capitol Hill, dispersing funds to lawmakers of both major political parties in order to maintain or improve pro-Israel policies, according to media outlets like CNN. Over recent years, this group has taken an increasingly political role, targeting Democratic critics of Israel as its target audience. AIPAC has recruited primary challengers against progressive members of Congress and established the United Democracy Project super PAC to oppose candidates who express any sympathy or support for Palestinian people in any form. Analysts see AIPAC’s willingness to donate large sums directly to Johnson to advance pro-Israel policies as evidence that things have changed considerably; Johnson himself threatens intervention should anti-Israel protests continue on campus campuses.
Johnson took to defending Israel, alleging that rebel group Hamas supported pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests at colleges and universities across America. He threatened congressional intervention, including withholding federal funding from institutions if protests continued, “Yet these protestors continue to demonstrate in support of Hamas even while their crimes continue unabated,” said Boone. “This isn’t who we are in America,” Johnson stated on X on Thursday morning, although ABC News has no reports of protesters waving Hamas flags like Johnson claimed they did during demonstrations. Johnson made this claim after reading an official Hamas statement issued Wednesday; Johnson stated in another post on X that Hamas “supported” protests at Columbia which began April 17 and should no longer receive public funds because “taxpayer dollars should not go toward institutions which allow chaos”. The remarks came one day after Speaker Pelosi visited Columbia University to meet Jewish students and join with fellow New York House Republican colleagues in calling on Columbia President Minouche Shafik, to resign if she cannot restore order during protests on campus. Johnson considered sending in the National Guard as part of his response. Protestors frequently interrupted with loud booing and shouts as Johnson gave a speech addressing them, leading Johnson to consider sending in military force as interventionist measures. Student protests at Columbia and other schools have generally denounced Israel’s military actions in Gaza while offering support to Palestinian civilians rather than Hamas; school administrators and officials have reported peaceful protests on campus. Hamas spokesperson Izzat Al-Risheq accused Biden of infringing upon individual rights and freedom of expression through arresting university students and faculty for rejecting genocide committed against Palestinian people by Neo-Nazi Zionists operating from Gaza under orders from Iran-backed political and military movements in Gaza Strip. “Students today are leaders of tomorrow, and their suppression today represents an expensive electoral bill that Biden administration will eventually pay,” stated Al-Risheq. Andrew Bates responded to Hamas’ statement by noting: ‘Hamas perpetrated one of the deadliest massacres against Jewish communities since World War II; therefore they are an extremely dubious source on this topic.” “Hammas’ rejection, after their acts of “unadulterated evil” which they’ve promised to commit time after time again is evidence of Biden’s moral clarity,” according to Bates. Biden has stood against antisemitism throughout his entire career – something which Bates noted on Corruption.news as being something similar. Sources included here are.
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