The Real Story Behind Mike Turner’s Firing

“When Speaker Mike Johnson summarily fired House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner this week, everyone assumed it was about Donald Trump,” Politico reports.

“Actually, it was about power — not the incoming president’s, but Johnson’s.”

“After spending more than a year tiptoeing around a Republican Conference where intervening in even miniscule factional disputes could risk his gavel, the speaker’s intel machinations this week represented an uncharacteristic — and messy — show of political muscle.”