The former president said that the House 'might have ended up with a Democrat' as speaker if not for his last-minute phone calls to holdouts.
by former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski."And what happened is, I started calling them and I started getting people to agree with me and coming on board."
Top left, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is pictured in Washington, D.C., on January 7, 2023, while former President Donald Trump, top right, is pictured in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 31, 2022. Bottom left, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is pictured holding a phone showing Trump calling to the House floor on January 7, 2023, while Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, bottom right, is shown during the same session.
"It was just about over, where they were gonna leave," said Trump."I think that if they left ... You might have ended up with a Democrat, to be honest with you ... It would have been a disaster." Trump tonight explains why he deserves all the credit for McCarthy becoming Speaker: “I didn’t like what was happening. It was starting to look a little bit chaotic .. a little bit not good. I started calling them and I started getting people to agree with me.”
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