Donald Trump, this Wednesday at the doors of the New York courthouse where he is being tried for corporate fraud. MIKE SEGAR (Portal)
The House Republican soap opera could have Donald Trump as a guest star next week. The former president, in statements to Fox News Digital, expressed his willingness to replace the fired Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House for a “short term” until there is consensus among Republicans on a candidate to fill the position permanently.
It was previously known that Trump had maintained contacts with congressmen from his party in order to travel to Capitol Hill next week, probably on Tuesday, for the caucus meeting in which the possible successor to Kevin McCarthy as President of the House of Commons will be discussed. as published by the Associated Press agency. One of the sources cited by the agency who is familiar with Trump’s plans said that if he goes ahead with the visit, he will be there to talk to Republican lawmakers, not to campaign for the job, even if some allies continue to lobby for him to do it.
In statements to Fox, Trump goes one step further. “They asked me to speak as a mediator because I have many friends in Congress. “If they don’t get the vote, they asked me if I would consider running for president until they find someone with a longer term because I’m running for president,” he said. “They asked me if I would take over for the party for a short period of time until they came to a conclusion. “I’m not doing it because I want to, I’m going to do it if necessary, in case they don’t make the decision,” the former president added.
Donald Trump has not entered the Capitol since his term as US President. Nevertheless, he played a crucial role in enabling the election of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives last January. In the television images, which were not subject to the strict regulations typical of Congress at the time, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former president’s most loyal congresswoman, was seen bringing her phone to the radicals with the initials DT on the screen. McCarthy himself admitted that he owed him the job.
This time, according to AP information, Trump wants to take the bull by the horns from the start and decide on McCarthy’s replacement in the crucial meeting. Currently, two congressmen have announced their candidacy. One of them is Steve Scalise, McCarthy’s number two and the Republican caucus. The other is Jim Jordan, an avowed Trumpist, one of the radicals who made McCarthy’s life impossible. He is a co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, which includes twenty members of the party’s hardline wing in Congress, although he was not among the eight who voted for the historic dismissal of the House president. It is not clear whether any of them can be a consensus president.
Although it is not necessary for a person to be a member of the House of Representatives to serve as Speaker, each of the 55 Speakers elected by the House has been one. From time to time, legislators have cast their votes outside of Congress, often in protest against candidates’ candidacy. Trump himself received some votes from radical Republicans in one of the 15 votes needed to elect McCarthy last January. Among those who proposed it were Matt Gaetz, who has since led the successful revolt against McCarthy, and gun activist Lauren Boebert. Marjorie Taylor Greene encourages you to apply now.
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Trump made a passing reference to the crisis in Congress on Wednesday as he arrived at a new session of the civil fraud trial against him in a Manhattan, New York, court. When asked by journalists about the proposal of some Republican lawmakers to replace McCarthy, the favorite candidate in the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential election expressed his love and declared that he would do “what is best for the country and the Republican Party.” ” “A lot of people have asked me,” he said. However, he added that there were other “great people” in the party who could do the job. “My entire focus is on being president,” he emphasized.
This Thursday, when he was hyperactive on his social network Truth, he wrote in one of his messages: “[Haré] Whatever is needed to support the Speaker of the House selection process in the short term until the final selection of a GREAT REPUBLICAN SPEAKER is made – a Speaker of the House supporting a new but very experienced Speaker! “I, TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump would likely win the majority of his caucus if he decided to run, in part because of the difficulty of running against him, even if they didn’t like him as a candidate for the position. Almost none of the members of Congress who voted to impeach him for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 have succeeded in repeating as a member of Congress. Trump as a speaker is unimaginable, but at the time it also seemed unimaginable that he could win a presidential election, and he did in 2016.
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