Mike Johnson defends “dear friend” Clay Higgins’ shockingly racist tweet, calls him “a very principled man”

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana made some shockingly racist remarks about Haitians this week, which pretty much everyone agrees were wrong, vile, disgusting, depraved, and indefensible. But one man is standing in his corner: House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In a tweet yesterday, Higgins, a former college dropout who believes same-sex marriage should be banned when he himself has been married, checks notes, four times, described Haitians immigrants as “wild,” said they were from the “nastiest country in the Western hemisphere,” and told them to “get their ass out of our country before January 20th,” among other things.

The tweet has since been deleted, but a screenshot of it continues to make the rounds on social media:

Politics, but make it gay!

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