Trump's been a little cagey on whether he supported removing McCarthy. But Matt Gaetz is suggesting Trump was behind his effort.
the former president supports the now-former speaker, Gaetz has suggested that Trump actually supported his effort to remove McCarthy.confirmed“Without getting too much into my private conversations with President Trump, that was most certainly not the sentiment that he shared with me,” Gaetz told The Daily Beast Monday night.
“My conversations with the former president leave me with great confidence that I did the right thing,” Gaetz told reporters.post on his social media app“Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves, why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our country,” TrumpFor another, some GOP members with direct lines to Trump told The Daily Beast that Gaetz didn’t have it right.
Miller went on to emphasize his claim that Trump was supporting McCarthy, and he further called into question Gaetz’s takeaway.Another Republican lawmaker who spoke with Trump this week but spoke to The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity said it was their impression that Trump wasn’t leaning a particular way on McCarthy.
Likewise, a Trump adviser told The Daily Beast they didn’t believe the former president had soured on McCarthy., who spoke to Trump this past weekend, said he didn’t totally know what Trump was thinking currently—but thought Trump was still behind McCarthy.
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