Trump personally piles pressure on MTG to drop crusade against Mike Johnson: report

Former President Donald Trump has reportedly personally intervened to get rebellious Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to drop her crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson.

ABC News reports that Trump recently talked with Greene and asked her to end her efforts to oust Johnson as speaker by stressing that the Republican Party needed to be "unified" and that the most important thing to do right now was to expand the GOP's razor-thin House majority.

Despite the pressure from Trump, however, Greene has not committed to drop her motion to vacate the chair and has only said she'll "have more information" about her intentions regarding Johnson after she meets with him on Tuesday.

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According to a report from Punchbowl News earlier on Tuesday, Greene on Monday gave Johnson a list of several outlandish demands that included abandoning Ukraine in its efforts to repel Russia's invasion and defunding special counsel Jack Smith's investigations into former President Donald Trump.

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The report said that Greene has been "holding open the possibility of triggering the motion to vacate this week if Johnson doesn’t accede to these demands," although that motion would also be doomed to fail given that House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has already pledged to support tabling Greene's motion.

All the same, the report stated that Greene would be doing the Democrats a "huge favor" by not putting them in a position to have to save Johnson's job.

"The decision to save Johnson isn’t playing very well in the House Democratic Caucus," Punchbowl News wrote. "Most Democrats aren’t psyched to keep a Republican speaker in place — especially because the GOP would never return the favor under any circumstance."

Johnson first rose to the speakership last year after a small band of rebel Republicans voted to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker last year.

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