Former President Trump is scheduled to address the House Republican Conference on Thursday, multiple sources confirmed to The Hill. The meeting comes exactly two weeks after Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in a New York hush-money case.
House Republican Chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York told lawmakers there would be a special meeting of the Republican Political Conference featuring Trump on Thursday. One source said the meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Another source said the meeting would take place at the Capitol Hill Club.
An adviser to President Trump confirmed plans for the meeting.
“The Speaker and House Republican leadership look forward to hosting President Trump on Thursday morning to discuss expanding the House Republican majority and the 2025 legislative agenda,” a spokesman for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said.
Trump is also scheduled to meet with a group of Republican senators on Thursday for policy-focused talks ahead of the November election. The former president is in Washington for a panel hosted by the Business Roundtable.
Trump’s planned meeting with House Republicans on Thursday is the latest show of support for Trump from Republican lawmakers after a 12-person jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in a lawsuit over $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Last week, Johnson unveiled a “three-pronged approach” to pursuing justice in the wake of Trump’s conviction, which involves using the spending process, bills before Congress and the power of Congressional oversight.
Republicans have slammed Trump’s conviction, calling the case politically motivated, criticizing the judge who presided over the trial and calling the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen, unreliable. Many Republicans, including Johnson, traveled to Manhattan during the trial and sided with the former president during the hearings.
“The American people are smart and they intuitively understand what’s going on here. They understand the two-tiered system and they understand that President Trump is being targeted because of who he is and because he will soon be the official nominee of one of the two major political parties in the country,” Johnson said at a press conference last week.
Leading Republicans are already making progress on that blueprint: Earlier this month, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) urging his committee to include a series of “reforms” in the future government funding process, including cutting “non-mission-essential” funding to the FBI and cutting off federal funding to “state prosecutors and attorneys general who engage in loafer behavior.”
Brett Samuels assisted.
Updated 12:18 p.m.
