In the wake of last week’s stunning “guilty on all counts” verdict in the Manhattan sham trial of former President Donald J. Trump, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is sounding alarm bells, warning the future of American jurisprudence is on the firing line at home and abroad.

On Salem Media Group’s THIS WEEK ON THE HILL program airing this weekend, Speaker Johnson doesn’t mince any words: “This is what you expect of a Third World country, a banana republic, not the United States…the premier legal system in the world which has been the model and envy of everybody for so long.” He added, “The Democrats are so desperate because they know President Trump is crushing Joe Biden in the polls that they have relegated themselves to this: they’ll risk the destruction, the credibility of our entire system of justice. And there is nothing less than that at stake here.”

Johnson also told Salem Radio Network host Hugh Hewitt that Republicans—and Donald Trump himself—broke all fundraising records in the hours after the guilty verdicts were unsealed in New York City. But he warns that........

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