No have to worry, America: Proper-wing podcaster Benny Johnson is right here to resolve America’s housing disaster.
Sure, this is similar Johnson who posted an AI video final month of him dressed as Batman punching immigrants.
That didn’t cease the America First Coverage Institute, a conservative suppose tank headed by Larry Kudlow, from bringing the MAGA influencer aboard to assist unfold the group’s Trumpy message and push their favored housing insurance policies ahead.
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AFPI goals to chop by means of inexperienced housing initiatives and environmental roadblocks, a speaking level amongst conservatives, in order that housing firms can construct extra rapidly. Additionally they promote tiny houses, as a result of nothing says “Have more babies!” like a tiny house.
Johnson’s checkered previous makes him an fascinating alternative for the job.
On one hand, his follower depend has already come beneath hypothesis after the previous BuzzFeed author—who was fired for plagiarizing twice—had a mysterious leap, by the thousands and thousands, in YouTube subscribers with no substantial viewer enhance.
However Johnson himself has already garnered a fame for enjoying unfastened with the info in his quest to remain loyal to President Donald Trump.
When the White Home chosen Johnson for a “new media” seat within the press briefing room, he used that second to spin an fascinating story.
As Trump was labeling the nation’s capital a harmful place that he wanted to ship within the Nationwide Guard to set straight, Johnson was one influencer who hopped on the narrative.
“Thank you for making this city safe, because no parent should have to go through what my family went through,” Johnson mentioned to White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The day earlier than, he was on X making claims that, in line with the Instances, weren’t fully correct.
“Here’s a mass shooting and murder in my front lawn, followed by my house being set on fire with my wife and infant child inside,” he wrote alongside an edited clip of safety footage.
Johnson’s home was not set on fireplace and, in line with the outlet, there have been no murders in his neighborhood since 2017.
“We were constantly targeted for being white in a ‘black neighborhood.’ No one gave a sh*t. Judges and cops saw us as the problem. When DC Defunded their police, the city turned into a deadly war zone. Every resident was terrorized,” Johnson added. He and his household moved from the neighborhood and relocated to Tampa, Florida, in 2021.
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However regardless of Johnson’s many credibility-stretching moments, together with (unknowingly) accepting cash from Russian operatives, he stays a cult favourite amongst MAGA media customers and, now, the White Home.
He was even alongside Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem final month filming her as she “stare[d] down an army of ANTIFA” in Portland, Oregon.
Nevertheless, a fast look from the rooftop to the bottom under confirmed a small group of protesters, journalists, and a person in a rooster go well with.
All in all, Johnson feels like an ideal match for AFPI’s message.
In spite of everything, nothing says “make housing great again” like ignoring environmental laws to squeeze households into tiny houses—and Johnson is the right peon to hawk that.
