Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday denounced the alleged death threat against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) by a man who was previously convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

But the Speaker did not condemn President Trump’s move to pardon the suspect, along with hundreds of others, earlier in the year.

"I don't know any of the details of this at all. I don't know who's been alleged to have been involved in this,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol. "I will say that anybody — anybody — who threatens political violence against elected officials or anyone else should have the full weight and measure of the Department of Justice on their head.

“I trust that that will happen — I hope it will,” he added. “We are intellectually consistent about that, obviously.”

Over the weekend, law enforcement in New York arrested Christopher Moynihan, a 34-year-old resident of Clinton, N.Y.,........

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