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(The Guardian) Trump and Johnson grow closer amid frustration over 'stupid' threat to speakership
The embattled House speaker, Mike Johnson, is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week where the pair are expected to appear tomorrow at an event at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate for a “major announcement on election integrity”.
Friday’s appearance will mark their first public event together since Johnson was elected to the speakership last fall, and comes as he and Trump have begun to develop a rapport and engaging in more frequent phone calls, Politico’s Playbook reports. It also comes at a precarious time for Johnson, who faces a threat for his ouster from one of Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress, the far-right Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Just before the spring recess last month, Greene filed a motion to vacate, and has since warned Johnson that passing Ukraine aid would put his position in peril. Johnson warned on Wednesday that an effort to oust him would not be helpful for the Republican majority and “would be chaos in the House”, and Trump insiders reportedly agree. “100 percent distraction. Unwanted. And just stupid,” one Trump insider told Playbook. -- We’re not going to get trapped into this cycle of bullshit that comes out of members of the House.
Those around Donald Trump are growing weary of the constant motion-to-vacate threats and fearful that an election-year speakership battle could risk Republicans losing the House, Politico’s Playbook writes.
“The internal fighting is not appreciated by [Trump],” one person close to the former president said, adding: It’s no way to run a party; it’s no way to run a House. You can’t work in that environment.
The embattled House speaker, Mike Johnson, is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week where the pair are expected to appear tomorrow at an event at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate for a “major announcement on election integrity”.
Friday’s appearance will mark their first public event together since Johnson was elected to the speakership last fall, and comes as he and Trump have begun to develop a rapport and engaging in more frequent phone calls, Politico’s Playbook reports. It also comes at a precarious time for Johnson, who faces a threat for his ouster from one of Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress, the far-right Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Just before the spring recess last month, Greene filed a motion to vacate, and has since warned Johnson that passing Ukraine aid would put his position in peril. Johnson warned on Wednesday that an effort to oust him would not be helpful for the Republican majority and “would be chaos in the House”, and Trump insiders reportedly agree. “100 percent distraction. Unwanted. And just stupid,” one Trump insider told Playbook. -- We’re not going to get trapped into this cycle of bullshit that comes out of members of the House.
Those around Donald Trump are growing weary of the constant motion-to-vacate threats and fearful that an election-year speakership battle could risk Republicans losing the House, Politico’s Playbook writes.
“The internal fighting is not appreciated by [Trump],” one person close to the former president said, adding: It’s no way to run a party; it’s no way to run a House. You can’t work in that environment.