Johnson: Trump Will “Fully Support” Me For Speaker

Axios reports:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) expects he’ll get help from a “fully supportive” former President Trump in a potential speaker race in the next three months. Johnson needs a speedy Trump endorsement to kneecap any challengers if the GOP holds the House.

“I have a very close working relationship with President Trump and consider him now a close friend. I know that’s mutual, and he tells me how much confidence he has in my leadership,” Johnson told Axios in an exclusive interview.

“I expect that he’ll be fully supportive so that will make a big difference,” Johnson said. “I believe he’s going to be elected decisively as president, and he will be the leader of our party, and he’ll have a large voice in everything that happens in Washington, so it’ll be important.”

Read the full article. Johnson spoke last night at Trump’s racist hate rally one day after issuing a statement attacking Kamala Harris for her “divisive and inflammatory rhetoric.” The cult loathes Johnson, as evidenced by the thousands of abusive replies he gets on X.

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