Johnson defends decision to attend Trump trial, calling the case ‘an atrocity’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended his decision to attend former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York earlier this week, calling the case an “atrocity.”

In an interview with NBC News, Johnson said he rode in the car with the former president from Trump Tower to the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, where Trump sat before a judge for the fifth week of his criminal trial.

Johnson and several other Republican allies showed up to show support for the presumptive GOP...