In bizarre interview, Mike Johnson refuses to say Biden won in 2020 and backs blaming Democrats for Trump shooting

House Speaker Mike Johnson spent a good portion of his interview on ABC News this weekend engaging in a familiar activity for congressional Republicans: dodging questions about Donald Trump.

George Stephanopoulos questioned the Republican House leader on recent statements made by Trump during his chaotic debate with Kamala Harris — specifically, the fact that he still believes he is the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Johnson treated the question as a hypothetical, one that lawmakers supposedly had no reason to answer: “We’re not going to talk about what happened in 2020. I’m not going to engage in it. We’re not talking about that.”

He repeatedly shut down attempts by Stephanopoulos to get him to clearly state whether he believes the 2020 election was won by Biden. Some experts have warned that Trump is already laying the groundwork to level claims about election fraud, should he lose in November.

“I’m not going to play the game,” said the speaker.

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that he’s not “going to litigate things that happened four years ago” when pressed about former Pres. Trump’s repeated 2020 election denialism.

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Johnson’s refusal to answer questions extended to queries about Eric Trump’s onstage rant directly blaming Democrats for supposedly orchestrating the two assassination attempts against his father. The Trump family circle has no evidence to justify those claims, but have made them repeatedly in the wake of a shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania that left the former