WASHINGTON — Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small Baptist law school that didn’t exist.
The establishment of the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law was supposed to be a capstone achievement for Louisiana College, which administrators boasted would “unashamedly embrace” a “biblical worldview.” Instead, it collapsed roughly a decade ago without enrolling students or opening its doors amid infighting by officials, accusations of financial impropriety and difficulty obtaining accreditation, which frightened away would-be donors.
There is no indication that Johnson engaged in wrongdoing while employed by the private college, now known as Louisiana Christian University. But as a virtually unknown player in Washington, the episode offers insight into how Johnson navigated leadership challenges that echo the chaos, feuding and hard-right politics that have come to define the Republican House majority he now leads.
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As a Professional Idiot, wut?
I hope this trend of people faking entire histories, going as far as creating fake companies, churches and charities, by politicians, never breaks out of the US.
There’s a handful of national level politicians now that are known to have straight up fake resumes and they are just the tip of the iceberg.
I don’t recall ever seeing this anywhere outside the US.
Plenty of lies and hiding history, sure, but this wholesale fabrication of histories? That’s a first.
Rand Paul, the fake doctor.
I was just watching American Greed where making huge lies about your qualifications that can be easily checked seems to be too common (i.e. a guy who said he had a physics degree and worked for a nuke plant but never had one).
If I recall correctly, that douche that was almost expelled from the House this week has been pretending his mother died on 9/11 in the towers.
She actually died in hospice care in 2016.
I don’t think this one was fake, just a failed venture that never got off the ground.
It’s like the GOP said… we don’t know who this guy is, so his past can’t possibly be problematic, lol. Oh well, let’s roll with it.
Same.
