Speaker Johnson: Biden Wasn’t Running the Country
“He genuinely did not know what he had signed.”

In a shocking new interview with The Free Press, Speaker Johnson shares when he realized President Biden was no longer effectively leading the country.
During the conversation with The Free Press’s Bari Weiss, Johnson recounts his observations and the struggles he faced with the administration, including difficulty securing a meeting with the White House.
When he finally did, he was ambushed by Biden’s allies, including Vice President Kamala Harris, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senator Chuck Schumer, and other staff members and aides.
Johnson sought a meeting to address pressing national security concerns and issues related to liquified natural gas (LNG) exports, a significant concern for his constituents in Louisiana. However, he described President Biden as “stunned and surprised” by an executive order the president himself had signed, effectively killing LNG, appearing unaware of its implications.
More details from The Free Press on the exchange:
“Can I ask you a question? I cannot answer this from my constituents in Louisiana,” Johnson recalled telling Biden. “Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies. Why would you do that? Cause you understand we just talked about Ukraine, you understand you are fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine, because they gotta get their gas from him.”
Biden, according to Johnson, was stunned. “I didn’t do that,” Biden said. Johnson responded, “Mr. President, yes you did. It was an executive order like three weeks ago.” Biden continued to deny that he paused the LNG exports. At that point, Johnson suggested that the president ask the president’s secretary to print out the executive order, so the two could read it together.
The conversation seemed to startle both the Speaker and the President, but for different reasons:
In this exchange, Johnson said he realized that Biden was not lying to him. “He genuinely did not know what he had signed,” Johnson said. “And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, “We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?” Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.”
Here are Johnson’s comments in full:
NEW: During a one-on-one meeting, Speaker Johnson asked President Biden why he paused LNG exports to Europe, says Biden was completely unaware he had done so.
The United States hasn't had a president for four years.
Johnson says Biden was completely unaware of an executive… pic.twitter.com/GgGm3QuYkM
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 18, 2025
Speaker Johnson’s account amplifies concerns shared by many, including myself, about President Biden’s ability to lead and his state of mind. Johnson’s story is a stark and alarming reminder of the influence wielded by the bureaucratic state and raises serious questions about who is truly running the country.

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But you didn’t feel you could say this before the election, for some reason, Speaker Johnson?
Complicit
Deep state
Uniparty
Exactly
Perhaps the words, “President Harris” occurred to Speaker Johnson. Harris would have been run by the same people running Biden.
Why didn’t Johnson expose this matter when it happened? This release of the content of the meeting on the eve of inauguration weekend is highly suspicious.
Yeah, why the hell didn’t Johnson say anything. I wonder if this lays the groundwork for nullifying any order or law Biden signed. Challenge them in court and demand a cognitive test much like an elderly person signing over their home to a scam artist.
So, Mr. Speaker, what are you going to do about it? Perhaps you could consider defunding every program and process implemented by Joe Biden. After all, YOU have the power of the purse. Anything that Biden supposedly signed is suspect, and the only recourse at this point is to defund any order or department that acted on his orders.
Mike Johnson doesn’t have the balls or the fortitude to follow thru with your brilliant suggestion.
The terms worthless and spineless come to mind.
Like most good intentions, the 25th amendment has a huge loophole or blind spot. If the Speaker of the house realizes that the commander in chief has nobody home upstairs, then, to do what’s best for the Country would be remove him temporarily until he is deemed by medical professionals he is ok to return, or will never be ok to return.
Because this never happened, the Country was run by non elected staff who were either lying to the acknowledged President to get signatures on the documents placed in front of him.
The.Speaker can’t trigger the 25th Amendment, he doesn’t have a role in the process. Nor do we want a way for the Speaker to somehow remove POTUS short of impeachment in the HoR and Senate agreement. Imagine Pelosi with the power to have removed Trump in 2019/20 by finding a couple of quack docs to sign off on it ‘certifying’ his inability to perform the duties of the office. Heck no that’s a nightmare.
The problem is that much of our system was designed to function with honorable people or at least by those with enough sense of shame to refrain from purely partisan power grabs and/or who would resign if caught ‘with their hand in the cookie jar.’ We have definitely lost that aspect along the way.
IMO the only real course is to hold the folks around Biden accountable by removing their security clearance and shutting them out of public life. If Raytheon or some white shoe law.firm hires these former top Biden officials then refuse to meet with them, halt any contracts with them. If a Univ hires them cut off grants. Make it painful to employ them. Sooner or later the message will get through.
The 25th certainly wasn’t designed to function with honorable people, etc. Or at least, it was designed in the full knowledge that an incompetent president’s people might very well want to keep him in office so they could wield his power, since that’s exactly what had happened less than 50 years earlier with Wilson.
Remember the 25th was LBJ’s idea, and it was designed to keep power within the White House insiders. The designers wanted to have a way to remove an incompetent president if it suited them, but they didn’t want to be forced to remove him if it didn’t suit them. That’s why it’s written the way it is.
And to protect the president from a coup, the designers made it extremely difficult to remove a president if he doesn’t want to be removed. It was intended for cases where the president is not protesting against his removal, but is unable to resign, e.g. because he’s in a coma or a straitjacket.
But any removal of biden would have wrought commie-la, who would have done the same (not having the ability to really understand the issues) but open to the same doctrines.
What would have actually changed? A big deal would have been made over “the first female president of the U. S.,” but we’d have the same mess on our hands as previously, all driven and derived by the same people. Would there be a difference in all the destruction that was done?
The damage was hatched and delivered when biden “won” the election with tons more votes more than barky.
If Biden, his family, close confidants and political supporters had acted ‘honorably’ aka putting the best interest of the Nation above personal or political concerns/raw power he would have resigned and probably wouldn’t have run.
That’s the real issue. The absence of this sort of honor or at least sense of shame that provides individuals the internal motivation to do the ‘right thing’ for the Nation v for their own or that of their political party.
Sounds to me like ol’ Mikie here was complicit.
They did not care about Biden and would not have cared about Harris, so long as they could jam the woke progressivism down the throats of everyone and claim it was to protect democracy. The biggest fraud in American history and biddegst abuse of power.
All puppet masters who conspired to run America, who acted in lieu of the actual president must be prosecuted. There seems to be conspiracy, fraud, racketeering.
Obama’s lackeys didn’t care if Biden or Kamala sat in the chair. They wanted to do what they wanted to do and had 4 years to make it happen which got easier the more mentally unfit Biden became. Towards the end he would sign a bill replacing the Statue of Liberty with one of Taylor Swift if it was put in front of him.
Well, it looks like Milhouse got his specific test case of Biden being incompetent at the very time he signed a particular EO.
Not that it matters, since Trump will make it toast before the court system can.
“Let’s go Brandon, I agree!” –Joe The Jackass
Let’s not forget Biden unilaterally declared the so called 28A is now ‘ratified’.
There’s no proof of that. All this shows is that he forgot about it at some point in the subsequent few weeks.
He’s entitled to his opinion; but it’s no more significant than anyone else’s.
There are some legal experts who have long been of that opinion, and they seem to have convinced him (or whoever put that statement out in his name), but the weight of legal opinion is heavily against it. Eventually someone will have standing to take it to court, and we’ll see what the courts have to say about it. But in the meantime everyone who matters is continuing to proceed as if the amendment has not been ratified.
You really should be ashamed at your attempted rationalization of this ouright corruption.
But just like Biden and Obama you have zero shame so I guess you’re just as corrupt as the two of them.
What the hell are you talking about? What corruption? We’re talking about the validity of presidential acts that may have been done at a time when the president was incompetent. Someone asked about challenging them in court, and I pointed out that you would have to prove he was incompetent at the time he did it. Not several weeks later. Or several weeks earlier.
May I let you in on a little secret?
Biden wasn’t running anything.
And everybody knew it and did nothing about it
It is just how some people act when the parents aren’t home. BTW, daddy gets back on Monday.
Some people considered it an opportunity.
Biden was stupid and lazy even before the dementia.
When he was Senator he was famous for being a complete moron who couldn’t do anything other than read off the papers his staff wrote for him.
By the way.
This was all the way back in FREAKING JANUARY. When Biden was still running for another 4 years.
And Johnson did NOTHING about it, and said NOTHING.
I don’t know what Johnson could have said but he could have directed every Republican House member to start every news conference off pointing out that Biden was senile and demanding a cognitive test by an independent doctor. BTW: That doctor that signed off on Biden’s mental health should have his license to practice yanked.
“I’m shocked – SHOCKED! – to find cognitive decline going on here!”
“Your amyloid, sir.”
“Ah. thank you!”
Puppet strings all over the oval office.
Welcome to the party pal
Don’t pat yourself on the back, Speaker Johnson… you knew and you didn’t try and stop the leftist coup and that makes you culpable as well.
Perhaps something else is happening here.
This revelation is part of the procedure to justify the reversal of all of Biden’s EOs and his pardons on the grounds he didn’t know what he was signing.
There is no procedure for that.
We’ll make one.
That is what I was wondering, is there anything that can actually be done after the fact, if it is discovered that while in power they were not actually capable of doing the job and were signing things without knowing what it was.
So far I have found nothing. I may be wrong but this seems like a hole in the system, especially concerning pardons. EO’s can be reversed by the next administration, but pardons and commutations can’t.
I don’t believe for a moment that Biden fully understood the pardons he was signing.
Nor can signings of legislation, or declarations of national monuments, or a string of other acts that a president is authorized by law to do but not to undo.
The problem is that you would have to prove that he was incompetent at the time that he did whatever it was. Not a few weeks earlier or later. They can always say that he signed that when he was having a good day, and you would have to prove otherwise. I don’t see how you could.
This has to be in violation of some of the country’s laws, correct?
I have been looking and it just isn’t. There is no procedure, precedent, or statute that I can find. I guess someone could challenge it in court, but who would even have standing?
Anyone who was harmed by the order would have standing. In this case the whole oil industry was harmed.
I don’t think the problem is standing, the problem is proving that he wasn’t having a good day, or a good ten minutes, when he signed it.
Why didn’t he walk out of that office and immediately give this information to the voters?
He should never be re-elected as Speaker again, just for this single admission.
My first thought is how the hell did I know Biden was suffering from dementia YEARS before my namesake figured it out. And why didn’t he say or do anything about it?