One cannot say for certain that Rep. Mike Johnson was deliberately lying during his acceptance speech to return as Speaker of the House. He read what he claimed was a prayer recited by President ...

we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth,” Johnson said, reading from a piece of paper. Historians do know the quote — because it has been falsely attributed to Jefferson ...

Whatever deliberation Johnson used in his mendacity, however, what matters is that by using a fake "Jefferson prayer," he was nodding to and advancing one of the primary tactics of Christian ...