Trump Is Still Pulling The Strings On House Republicans

According to a new report from Politico, Donald Trump is still very much calling the shots with House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy recently visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago, where the two appeared to patch things up, but in reality Trump is still trying to control McCarthy and, by extension, the entire Republican Party. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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According to a report from Politico's playbook. Donald Trump is still very much calling the shots with Republicans in the house of representatives, to the point where they say he's effectively tied the hands of Republican minority leader. Kevin McCarthy. Now you'll recall Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump earlier this year. In fact, starting on insurrection day had a bit of a falling out. Kevin McCarthy was furious. Donald Trump then got furious with McCarthy for being mad at him and all of this fighting and back and forth and blah, blah, blah. But then recently McCarthy went down to Mar-a-Lago and the two made up, at least they made up publicly, but it's turns out that Donald Trump is still attempting to control McCarthy. And by extension the entire Republican caucus in the house by tying McCarthy's hands on certainty issues. For example, McCartney, the specifically is asked Donald Trump, according to this political report to, uh, stop all the attacks on those incumbent Republicans who voted to impeach you.

And Trump said, yeah, okay, no, I'm not doing that. McCarthy says, okay. And McCarthy, he understands that that's going to hurt Republicans in the midterms, but he's a coward. He doesn't want to stand up to Donald Trump. So he's letting him do it. Then McCarthy says, okay, well, we got to start with the, uh, you know, campaigning. Really? We do. Um, so we're going to use your name. And Trump said, no, you can't use my name. You can't fundraise off my name. I'm not giving you any access to my resources. You have to do what I say. If you want that ability, if you want to use my name, if you want to go out there and campaign and say that I was a good friend of Donald Trump, you better kiss the ring. You better do. As I say.

And now this is where things get a little weird. Why in God's name would McCarthy or any other Republican in the house, feel the need to go and say, Hey, um, I know you're a loser because you lost 2020, uh, you cost Republicans, the house in the Senate during your time in office, you, uh, pretty much torpedoed, a lot of different campaigns of people you, uh, endorsed in special elections throughout your entire administration. But yes. Let me go ahead and listen to you. Serial campaign loser, about how I could run my midterm race. This is absolutely idiotic. I mean, look, I want Republicans to absolutely get demolished in 2022, especially because the Democrats keep shooting themselves in the foot. So it should be a cake walk for the Republicans, but there's so beholden to this loser. They may tank themselves while the Democrats are tanking themselves.

Hell if you're a third party candidate, 2022 is your year because wow, both of these parties are so incredibly incompetent that it borders on. Hilarious. It truly does what the Democrats have done. Like the last two and a half weeks is idiotic and it was all 100% predictable. It's all the things that we feared they would do. They're doing it. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, these idiots don't recognize that they're worshiping a false idol and this false idol much like in the biblical story, uh, is going to send them all straight to hell. So it is what it is. Again, if you're a third party candidate strike while the iron's hot and 20, 22, maybe the hottest that iron has ever been because Holy, wow, everybody else is just so insanely and competent.

They don't even deserve to be in Congress anymore.