Former President Donald Trump issued the statement shortly after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted against the campaign to oust Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) from the speakership.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) filed a motion to stand down after a speech in which she criticized Johnson for not defunding the Justice Department to stop the lawsuit against Trump. .
The former president praised Greene even though he said Republicans need to unite around his platform.
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President Trump said: “I love Marjorie Taylor Greene with all my heart. She has spirit, she has fight, and I know she will always be by our side and by our side.” “I’m doing it,” he wrote.
“Mike Johnson is a good guy who tries very hard.”
“But now the Republicans have to fight the radical left Democrats and all the damage they have done to our country,” he added. “We will not be in a position to vote on a motion to vacate if that one majority soon increases to three or four. That may very well happen at some point, but now is not the time.”
He wrote that he was leading in presidential polls and predicted Republicans would win the House as well as the Senate.
“But if we show DISUNITY, which will be portrayed as chaos, it will be bad for everything!” Trump said. “Mike Johnson is a very good guy and he works very hard. I too would have liked some things to have been accomplished in the last two months, but we will do it together. ”
He went on to ask Republicans to vote to advance the motion.
Greene previously said she was angry that Johnson had not halted funding to Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression.only
11 Republicans Voted in favor of the motion.
Mr Johnson defended himself by saying: “I’m the most conservative MP to ever hold the gavel, but the real numbers are what we’re talking about.”
“As a political play, it’s a failure.”
Angry Republicans denounced the effort in an impromptu media conference outside the Capitol. South Dakota Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson particularly derided the motion.
“We know this motion will do nothing to make America stronger, and it will do nothing to bring victory to conservatives. She will sow seeds of opinion, and by the way, they will fail. She is engaged in political theater that has failed,” Johnson told reporters.
“Here are some mainstream members who are adults, and we’re going to do the same thing as adults,” he added. “We’re going to ignore the tantrums and instead work on actually governing this country.”
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky was an enthusiastic supporter of the motion to remove Johnson and was scathing in his criticism of the political climate after the vote.
“Removing Kevin McCarthy was a huge mistake. Every Democrat voted to remove him because he fought tooth and nail,” Massey said on social media.
“It would be an even bigger mistake to keep Mike Johnson,” he added. “The overwhelming majority of Democrats voted to keep him because he gave them everything they wanted.”
Johnson replaced Kevin McCarthy in October after he criticized the former speaker as weak and not supportive enough of President Trump. Greene praised Johnson’s ascension and posed for a selfie with him after the successful vote.
“I just voted for Mike Johnson to be the next Speaker of the House! Mike has a history of conservative voting and has been instrumental in helping me move important legislation forward,” she said. said. Posted at that time.
After Wednesday’s vote, she accused him of being the leader of a “unity party” that includes the Democratic Party.
“Tonight, you saw the United Party in action. Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, and the rest of the Democrats saved Mike Johnson,” she said. Said in two messages on social media.
Mr. Trump ended his post Wednesday by promising a big Republican victory soon.
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