These Christian Nationalists like Mike Johnson are so desperate to rewrite history and how our founding fathers felt about the separation of church and state.
Shortly after being reelected as House Speaker, Johnson read a prayer on the House floor which he attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but according to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, there’s no evidence Jefferson ever recited the prayer:
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) read off a prayer on Friday shortly after being re-elected to House speaker, but experts say he flubbed his assertion it was recited daily by President Thomas Jefferson.
“I was asked to provide a prayer for the nation,” Johnson told his colleagues on Friday, according to a report in The Daily Beast. “I offered one that is quite familiar to historians and probably many of us. It is said each day of his eight years of the presidency and every day thereafter until his death, President Thomas Jefferson recited this prayer.”
