Posted on 04/23/2024 4:13:19 PM PDT by RandFan
AIN’T EASY BEING GREENE — Turns out it wasn’t a momentary lapse of judgment: DONALD TRUMP yesterday evening defended Speaker MIKE JOHNSON for the second time in as many weeks amid a swirl of speculation about his future atop the House GOP.
After spending the day holed up in a Manhattan courtroom (more on that in a second), the former president told Real America’s Voice radio host John Fredericks that Johnson is “trying very hard” and “a very good person.”
“Well, look, we have a majority of one, OK?” Trump said, extending Johnson some grace and echoing the speaker’s own explanation for working with Democrats on a host of issues. “It’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do.”
Trump even praised Johnson for turning some foreign aid to Ukraine into a loan (a maneuver we previewed as a Trump sop weeks ago) and for standing “very strong with me” on urging NATO countries to up their defense spending commitments. More from Meridith McGraw
The remarks come just a day after Rep. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.) vowed on Fox News to force out Johnson one way or another. And it came just hours after MAGA chieftain STEVE BANNON claimed that Trump was in fact “furious about what happened” with Johnson’s support of foreign-aid spending and that he had been manipulated by “cuck political operatives” into backing the rookie speaker.
What does it all mean for Greene? Under her theory of the case, conservative lawmakers are home in their districts right now getting an earful from their constituents about Johnson’s betrayal of the MAGA cause, bucking them up to join Greene in a motion to vacate when they return to Washington next week.
But after first hearing Trump say, “I stand with the speaker,” and now, “I think he’s trying very hard,” it’s going to be awfully hard to deny that Trump is being crystal clear in signaling what he wants — or rather, doesn’t want: a messy election-year coup that throws the House into chaos and again reminds voters what MAGA governance can look like.
Williams didn’t like Trump until the Johnson collusion with RATs and RINOs and betrayal of the base. He is a fickle little thing.
Now this pathetic Zeeper loooooooooves Trump. That is until Trump tells Zelensky to deal an end to that fiasco in his cesspool Ukraine.
yes, they are wheeling out Trump and Reagan as their Trojan Horse. Once they are behind the wall, they will absolutely sabotage DJT
You Fing piece of S liar.
I am an original supporter of Donald Trump.
You are a Russian shill and Your lover Putin is afraid of Trump.
This is so typical of you anti American filth, literally making up everything you post.
I’ve been confronting you pro Russian scum for years that you don’t support Trump.
And now Putin is shaking in his boots that Trump may be elected.
Now this pathetic Zeeper loooooooooves Trump.
How interesting, and revealing. He was just bashing me in a post where I said I supported Trump in his trials, and the election, but stop short of believing everything Trump says. Guess that wasn't good enough for his new found love.
Go take your multiple screen names, and your Ukraine 🇺🇦 flag to a Democrat forum and sell your war. We aren’t interested.
” And whether people like Ukraine funding or not, THE ISSUE is he failed to stick to his promise to keep any funding for it tied to US border security. “
Yes. And the demoralization of one’s own voters is much worse when you cave.
Repubs voted unanimously against the 1994 Crime Bill, Obamacare, Clinton’s tax increase and did well in the following election.
Repubs had a seven seat majority and in a year it is down to one. It’s just not realistic that they can hold a one seat majority thru January, and Trump is making voter-demoralizing decisions on the hope that a one vote majority can be maintained.
It’s a big step to throw the opposition candidate off the ballot. I don’t think the Dems can do it with a one or two majority. A few of them are in Trump districts. Some are not like Raskin and are not willing to act like Maduro to “get” Trump.
It’s not automatic that Dems vote to throw Trump off the ballot.
It IS automatic that demoralized Repub voters weaken both Trump and Repubs in Nov.
Who is we you scumbag?
I only have one screen name and I’ve always supported Donald Trump including openly on this forum and you are a filthy piece of garbage.
I don’t even remotely run free Republic but I can just express my opinion if I was overseeing the behavior of scum like you here you would have been long gone.
You don’t even belong on a democrat forum you are a foreign propagandist.
But I don’t listen to your nonsense here I answer you because there are others who see what’s going on and despise your behavior. I call it out to give them support.
You don’t support Donald Trump or any republican you are here to harm the United States of America and I despise you.
Great analysis thanks.
How dare you
Nope. Johnson and his ilk can't trust Trump. Some of us know better.
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