Former President Donald Trump told the conservatives currently withholding support from House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy in McCarthy’s speakership bid to stand down. “I like him,” Trump said of McCarthy. While Trump did not name those trying to stop McCarthy from taking the Speaker’s gavel on January 3, he in no uncertain terms said he disagrees with their efforts—and warned that there could be serious consequences if McCarthy does not get the gavel and they could make Washington worse for conservatives.
“I think it’s a very dangerous game that’s being played,” Trump said. “Some bad things could happen. Look, we had Boehner and he was a strange person but we ended up with Paul Ryan who was ten times worse and an incompetent speaker. I think he goes down as the worst speaker in history.”
Trump is hardly the first major conservative leader to raise these concerns. Nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY), as well as Congresswoman-elect Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, have all warned of their concerns.
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