Former President Donald Trump praised Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia while urging her and other House Republicans to hold off on removing Speaker Mike Johnson for the time being.
On Wednesday, Greene’s motion to oust the speaker failed in a landslide vote of 359-43, with just 11 Republicans supporting the plan.
A whopping 163 Democrats voted to save Johnson, which lends credence to MTG’s scathing criticism that he’s a puppet of the left. As a reminder, House Democrats vowed last month to block any GOP efforts to remove the Louisiana Republican from the speaker’s chair.
Hours after the motion failed on Wednesday, Trump urged House Republicans to halt further attempts to boot Johnson, saying the intraparty disunity could weaken the GOP in this fall’s elections.
Despite opposing Johnson’s ejection, the former president extolled Greene, who led the efforts to boot the incumbent speaker.