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.
Trump has probably made a deal, which could be good. I trust Trump.
This puzzles me.
I think Don Jr came out and said these spenders sending money away are not our friends. The media knew he meant Johnson.
If Johnson is removed he and maybe more RINOs will probably resign like McCarthy did when he was removed.
That will give the Demoncrats the House majority and they will use it to declare Trump ineligible for “Insurrection”.
That’s what this is about.
Trump wants Johnson to keep the chair until he is sworn in in January.
Probably sound advice at this point in time. What is done is done.
Sure let’s throw out our leadership and lose the House 6 months before the election.
Let’s have MTG run everything with 3 or 4 others.
Let’s ignore Trump’s advice on the eve of the election.
All over one issue. /s
I support aid to Ukraine, but if Johnson had blocked it, I would not in a million years have wanted to depose him over it.
Good God, I’ve seen this one issue outrage from conservatives over the years and it’s always absurd.
I remember a republican gritting his teeth and yelling at me “I don’t care! “ when I said he was just going to elect a far worse Democrat.
So is Trump supportive of Johnson, or is Trump saying he does not want to see a messy fight over the speakership again?
After Johnson broke up the bills and catered to Joe:
“Don Jr. was irate.
“Enough already!” Don Jr. wrote. “If you ever even begin to start believing anything anyone in Republican leadership tells you just watch this. Pay close attention to those that don’t seem bothered by this. They’re not our friends.”
They’re leaving anyway like 2018.
They HATE TRUMP!
I dont like the argument Trump is using though when the Speaker controls the floor it does not matter if you have a majority of 1.
The whole thing didnt need to come up and it’s 100 billion of unpaid foreign aid.
It should never have even come to the floor/vote
But there you go...
Yea, just keep ignoring that majority of 1.
Purists, demanding the perfect from their party will be the death of their party!
My thought is that as long as we have an unaccountable CIA with “six ways from Sunday at getting back at you” it doesn’t matter who we put in as Speaker; the Deep State will get control of them through threats, bribes, etc. Or maybe just by convincing them on the issues by lying to them.
I think the first thing we gotta do is get Trump into office, preferably with both houses of Congress with as many non-globalists as possible. And then we need to take a shredder to the CIA.
The globalists have shown who they are. For instance, all of Nebraska’s Congress-critters have voted the wrong way on the last few bills. it’ll take some time to get rid of them. Or maybe they are good folks but somehow compromised or leveraged by the globalists/Deep State. We don’t know the whole story until we know the whole story, and maybe some of them can be salvaged.
But the only way we’re ever gonna get the rest of the story is by getting Trump in there.
That’s my top priority.
According to BullCrapico:
The Earth is flat.
Globull Warming, Globull Cooling, Climate Change, Climate Crisis is all true.
President Trump has never built anything, and Biden is brilliant.
What’s the other option? get rid of mike and ...? a Dem is put in charge
The death of the GOP is coming from Reps like Johnson and their constant betrayals
The slim majority does not matter if you control the floor of the House and believe me if shoe was on the other foot and Dems controlled it with 1 vote they would do what they want with an iron fist
Not bring up things like 100 billion of unpaid foreign aid for a vote?
It’s his decision to bring it to a vote. His!
Rand Paul said the other day if Donald Trump keeps defending this nonsense he will lose the election
It isn't leadership when Johnson legislates against the base.
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