Thread by @ifudontlike2bad

If you think you have read everything about Mike Johnson think again. 🧵
1/
Mike Johnson has filed federal disclosures for 8 yrs & reports no bank acct, no savings, no retirement fund, no investments.
His office later admitted he does have a bank acct, but earns 0 interest so

2/ he does not have to report it.
His wife Kelly runs a nonprofit where most of the money goes to her salary (prob all of the money in general) funded by anonymous donors.
An ethics complaint said Johnson left about thirteen thousand dollars of her income off his own forms.

3/Before Congress, Johnson worked w Exodus International, a group behind pray the gay away programs aimed at LGBTQ teens.
Exodus wasn't a controversy. It was systemic sexual abuse.
This week, former pres. of Exodus was arrested in a sting for trying to meet a 14 yr old boy.

4/Johnson also spent 8 yrs on the board of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission during the same period the SBC was facing widespread, documented sexual abuse & cover ups.
Being on the board means he had a role/vote in how institution responded.

5/ Mike Johnson also publicly supported Reverend Grant Storms, who was convicted after being caught masturbating near a children's playground. Johnson has repeatedly told the public he adopted a teen from Young Life Ministry.
Public records show he never legally adopted him.

6/ The teen was fourteen, not eighteen, when Johnson took custody. Mike Johnson took Michael Tirrel James in when he was homeless. There was no formal adoption. The youth ministry program where Johnson first met him has faced hundreds of credible allegations of sexual abuse.

7/ The point is, the pattern across Mike Johnson's network. Young Life. Exodus International. Grant Storms. Alan Chambers. Steve Berger.
Every institution Mike Johnson worked with/built, his career through, has been credibly connected to abuse or exploitation of minors.

8/ Johnson lived rent free in a 3.7 mil dollar Wash home owned by political donor. Then moved into a home owned by Rep. Darrell Issa, & his campaign paid $2500 a month to Issa's company for rent.
A watchdog group filed FEC complaint because campaign $ isn't supposed to pay rent

9/ A resident who lives near Mike Johnson contacted me as a whistleblower & asked to remain anonymous. She worked for the day care at the church.
Said she noticed money from daycare's PPP loan was being taken by church & believed they were stealing it from child care program.

10/ She said she was fired shortly after attending a women's rights march in Austin. She said most of the black women on staff were fired around same time. She said she noticed Mike Johnson mostly hires family/friends.

11/ I have also received private messages from multiple people who contacted me as whistleblowers.
Some of them I have spoken to directly. Others shared their accounts in writing.
They described a wide range of personal experiences & interactions w him over the yrs.

12/ Some said the encounters were consensual. Others said they did not know him.
Others said they knew him but DID NOT welcome his attention. Most said the interactions/encounters took place in social settings in Louisiana or Texas.
The accts varied. They were ALL males.

13/ I am reporting these accounts only as the experiences people chose to share with me.
I will not reveal my sources. Do not ask.
Protecting them is number one.