‘Bait and switch’: Liz Cheney book tears into Mike Johnson over pro-Trump January 6 brief | Books | The Guardian

"Mike was seriously misleading our members," Cheney writes. "The brief did assert as facts known to the amici many allegations of fraud and serious wrongdoing by officials in multiple states." 

Johnson, she says, then told Republicans that 105 House members had expressed interest. "Not one of them had seen the brief," Cheney writes. She also says he added "a new inaccurate claim", that state officials had been "clearly shown" to have violated the constitution… 

…Johnson "was telling our colleagues he was a constitutional law expert, while advocating positions that were constitutionally infirm", Cheney writes… 

"A team of lawyers who were also apparently advising Trump had in fact drafted [it]," she writes. "Mike Johnson had left the impression that he was responsible for the brief, but he was just carrying Trump's water."… 

In certain circumstances, close elections can be thrown to the House – which Mike Johnson now controls.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/29/speaker-mike-johnson-dishonest-january-6-brief-liz-cheney-book