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House Speaker Mike Johnson's 'adopted' 40-year-old son Michael Tirrell James in court on charges of running illegal cannabis business and possession of brass knuckles - as it's revealed rap sheet goes back to 2003
Daily Mail ^ | 11/03/2023 | By JOSH BOSWELL IN LOS ANGELES and BEN ASHFORD IN DELAND, FLORIDA

Posted on 11/04/2023 8:16:33 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

The top GOP lawmaker and his wife Kelly informally adopted James after meeting him while doing charitable community work in Louisiana in the 1990s.

James went on to have a string of conflicts with law enforcement, beginning just a few years after the Johnsons took him in, and continuing to this day.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benashford; doublestandard; hitjob; joshboswell; michaeltirrelljames; mikejohnson
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To: Bon of Babble

By age 16, a great deal of damage has already been done. I’ll bet he committed numerous criminal acts by the time that the Johnsons adopted him...maybe he hid his activities while he was living with the Johnsons. I am sure that they tried to do the best for him.


61 posted on 11/04/2023 8:55:26 AM PDT by RouxStir (No Peein' in the Gene Pool )
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To: Bon of Babble

The Johnson’s get all credit for trying to give this black a home but should have followed Scott Adams’ advice.


62 posted on 11/04/2023 8:55:33 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: cowboyusa
BABYLONBEE.COM FBI Uncovers Horrifying Extremist Reading Material In Mike Johnson's Home

63 posted on 11/04/2023 8:55:54 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: DarrellZero

Johnson and wife are Christians who tried to help a homeless young kid......
who refused to learn by example and adamantly clung to his POS self.

So by all means let’s excoriate people for trying to do a good thing.


64 posted on 11/04/2023 8:57:21 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: TakebackGOP

Nor to publish known photos of obamaumao in Pakistan smoking huge reefers of weed with his fag Paki pal, on his trip to enroll in the MB).

Daily Mail has always been since before and during WWII a front for brit intel, pretending to be be for UK God and Country but really the mega Socialists of the lost State and Empire. Never forget that obamaomau’s daddy was a pal of the Mau Mau’s Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya), and that obi went back to Kenya to campaign for his pal Raila Odinga (a kenyatta disciple trained in East Germnay) as a US Senator at the time. Raila Odinga lost in 2008 and announced to the world that obama’s daddy was Odinga’s maternal uncle! Imagine that.

Kenyatta created the Mau Mau terrorists who destroyed Kenya.
obamaumao’s daddy was a political ally of this Marxist. And Britain lost Kenya.

Which is why we get a one hour lecture from this boring neo Marxist puppeteer for joebama— about Israel as a terrorist state. Muslim Marxism for globalist dominance and destruction of Western Civilization.


65 posted on 11/04/2023 9:00:25 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: Bon of Babble

Brass knucks!

This is far worse than taking bribes from the Chi-Coms and coincidentally delivering the mineral wealth of Afghanistan to the CCP.


66 posted on 11/04/2023 9:00:35 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Why is “adopted” in scare quotes?

Will he get the Hunter Biden deal?


67 posted on 11/04/2023 9:01:05 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Bon of Babble

Ingrate leftist formed before the Johnson’s too him in. More Farrakhan than Washington.


68 posted on 11/04/2023 9:07:50 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Bon of Babble

This attempt to find a scandal is not working, because everything beyond the headline makes Johnson look good.

This story is not posted to Reddit, where there is a constant wildfire of fake conservative scandals.


69 posted on 11/04/2023 9:11:18 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Organic Panic
Why is “adopted” in scare quotes?
The Johnson's became legal guardians rather than formally adopting the then-child.
70 posted on 11/04/2023 9:11:19 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: Bon of Babble

Has Johnson released ALL the J6 videos?


71 posted on 11/04/2023 9:13:26 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Bon of Babble
Try as hard as you can, you can't change nature. I have seen the whole cycle in a halfway house rehab program. White or black, the pattern is much more nature seated than nurture. I have seen these kids be drawn to trouble like a cat is drawn to a mouse or bird. It is in the genes and you can't rub that out or fix it. Damaged goods for life that can't be recovered unless they become sick of being themselves and are willing to fight the battle against their own defect. You can help them but you can't fix them; they have to do it themselves.

Give the Johnson's credit for trying and forgive them for being young and idealistic. They weren't much older than the kid when they took responsibility for him.

72 posted on 11/04/2023 9:13:30 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Bon of Babble

Brass knuckles should not be illegal. Criminals should be!


73 posted on 11/04/2023 9:17:34 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: irishjuggler

Similar actions to adopt in that same time period of “babies” of unwed mothers so to say. Only to have their mercy and care as adoptive parents thrown in their face by their adoptee (indfluenced by schoolmates who say “you know they aren’t your parents.. how about some weed, and deal some).

Volusia County is Daytona, FL. Bangers all over the place, which is apalling on bl bike week (totally naked twerkers, high on crack etc) on the sidewalks outside Hard Rock Hotel.

So typical of the Marxists who push this agenda against blacks by trying to shame good people for the mistake of their Christian values in adopting a waif black child. Despite all they did- the lure of the school pals and gangs dragged him down. So, of course Marxists publish this.


74 posted on 11/04/2023 9:19:00 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: UnwashedPeasant

OH but Hunter is being treated so unfairly because of his drug addiction YET the media can’t wait to disgrace Mike Johnson’s adopted son!! The media is such SCUM!!


75 posted on 11/04/2023 9:19:29 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: TexasGator

Character is mostly formed by age 12. I have read there is a readjustment, not as large from 18-25.


76 posted on 11/04/2023 9:20:03 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: TexasGator

Even babies so adopted, many, turn out the same way, mixed race adopters or not. 16 was way too far along for this adoption but their faith convinced them the right thing to do.

These are extraordinary people. Christians.


77 posted on 11/04/2023 9:21:23 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: jimwatx

Exactly.

And if they didn’t help him, the headline would have been how they turned their backs on a homeless inner city youth, thereby leaving him to a life of desperation and crime.


78 posted on 11/04/2023 9:24:07 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: citizen

Thank you for the correction. Legal guardians, not adoption, but responsible legally for actions until Legal Age. So no longer responsible 6 years after becoming guardians.

How these press a@@holes shade and mould the actual story.


79 posted on 11/04/2023 9:27:23 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They have served to inform me about a guy I didn’t know much about. Every time I see something about him from the Left, he rises in my esteem.


80 posted on 11/04/2023 9:30:41 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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