Speaker Johnson Is Plotting to Get Trump’s Agenda Passed in 2025
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/speaker-johnsons-plot-to-get-trumps-agenda-passed-in-2025.html
SCOOP: After TRUMP was convicted in NY, he picked up the phone to call someone he thought could do something about it: Speaker MIKE JOHNSON.
The president was angry over the verdict, dropping f-bombs in his conversation with the pious GOP leader who never raises his voice —…
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 13, 2024
In a functioning democracy, this would lead to formal investigations and both individuals resigning in disgrace. Instead it probably won’t even make front page news. https://t.co/VYQomVB87S
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 13, 2024
pastor mike for tfg politico 13june24
Politico, “Trump’s private demand to Johnson: Help overturn my conviction”:
… [Trump] has been obsessed in recent weeks with harnessing the powers of Congress to fight on his own behalf and go to war against the Democrats he accuses of “weaponizing” the justice system against him.
It’s a campaign he orchestrated in the days after his May 31 conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, starting with a phone call to the man he wanted to lead it: Speaker Mike Johnson.
Trump was still angry when he made the call, according to those who have heard accounts of it from Johnson, dropping frequent F-bombs as he spoke with the soft-spoken and pious GOP leader.
“We have to overturn this,” Trump insisted…
The speaker didn’t really need to be convinced, one person familiar with the conversation said: Johnson, a former attorney himself, already believed the House had a role to play in addressing Trump’s predicament. The two have since spoken on the subject multiple times.
But sympathy can only go so far. With a slim majority and skittish swing-district members, Johnson is already finding it difficult to deliver for Trump.
Republicans have all but abandoned their effort to impeach President Joe Biden, as Trump wants. Wednesday’s contempt vote against Attorney General Merrick Garland squeaked by only after an intense whipping effort. And now a series of proposals targeting what Republicans call “rogue prosecutors” (i.e., those investigating Trump) appear to have a wobbly future.
Everyone likes to leap on these moments for their Dear Leader vibe, but I urge folks to consider that this unity spin is also psyops. Vulnerable Rs do *not* want to vote to shield Trump from the law. The facade is racking, as I tried to argue today: https://t.co/ORopWwJSwv https://t.co/E3R7as1nx5
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) June 14, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/182728/top-goper-accidentally-wrecks-trumps-biggest-lie-jack-smith