I’ll add that I – giving Mike Johnson the least benefit of the doubt I could – tried pretty hard to find any instance of him referring to the DoD as the “Department of War” following Trump’s executive order; I could not.
He corrected himself a few days ago in a back and forth about iran after he called if department of defense and called it the department of war.
Here he is 3 days ago:
“We are not at war. We have no intention of being at war,” he told reporters. “The Department of War has made it very clear – this is a limited operation. It’s an operation that is limited in its scope and duration.”
Oh shit, that’s why I didn’t find it. Here’s the C-SPAN clip. He says “Department of Defense” and then immediately corrects himself to “Department of War”. Jesus christ, Mikey, I really tried.
(This was somewhat difficult to find even with the quote; please link a source if you use one in the future instead of just quoting.)
EDIT: See below; this is invalid.
I’ll add that I – giving Mike Johnson the least benefit of the doubt I could – tried pretty hard to find any instance of him referring to the DoD as the “Department of War” following Trump’s executive order; I could not.
He corrected himself a few days ago in a back and forth about iran after he called if department of defense and called it the department of war.
Here he is 3 days ago:
Oh shit, that’s why I didn’t find it. Here’s the C-SPAN clip. He says “Department of Defense” and then immediately corrects himself to “Department of War”. Jesus christ, Mikey, I really tried.
(This was somewhat difficult to find even with the quote; please link a source if you use one in the future instead of just quoting.)
I couldnt find the source that listed the slip either, I just recall reading an article that listed the slip days back so i knew the context.
oh whew thank you i was worried he was doing the right thing
dammit don’t make me give him a single iota of respect because that’s something that’ll do it