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    Jackie Calmes: Who is House Speaker Mike Johnson? Matt Gaetz's victory lap says it all

    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Oct 26, 2023 3 minutes
    Matt Gaetz answers questions outside the U.S. Capitol after successfully leading a vote to remove Rep.

    "MAGA Mike'' won. Which means, alas, so did Rep. Matt Gaetz.

    For Gaetz, the smarmy Trump Mini-Me from Florida, and his fellow Republican nihilists — the ones Rep. Kevin McCarthy dubbed "the Crazy 8s" after they forced his firing as House speaker three weeks ago and left Congress in chaos — the House's surprise election of right-wing Rep. Mike Johnson, a formerly obscure Louisianan (despite his big role working to overturn Donald Trump's defeat), amounted to sweet, sweet vindication.

    Here was Gaetz, on like-minded Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast Wednesday morning, in

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