Miami, June 17 (EFE).- The president of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, held a private meeting this Monday with former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) at his Mar-a-Lago residence (Florida), to analyze the November presidential elections, local media reported.
The president of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Richard Hudson, also attended the meeting, without revealing the details of the meeting, which would include the planning of a unified agenda for the Republican Party in 2025.
“Our Party is united and, working together, I am confident that we will send President Trump back to the White House, take back the Senate and increase our Republican majority in the House,” Johnson said on the social network a photograph of him accompanied by the former president.
This is Trump’s second meeting with Johnson at Mar-a-Lago, after last April, when the congressman was under pressure from the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement, the acronym for Trump’s campaign and presidency. led in the Lower House by Trumpist Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene introduced a motion last March to remove Johnson as speaker of the US House of Representatives.
But Trump made clear, after that first meeting in April, his support for Johnson, so Greene’s attempt to unseat Johnson ultimately failed.
Johnson returned the favor to Trump last month, when he appeared in Manhattan criminal court to support the former president during his trial, where he was found guilty.
Trump is awaiting his sentencing – which will be announced on July 11 – in the criminal case for which he was convicted and which involved irregular payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
As reported by Politico in recent days, Trump asked Johnson to do something about his conviction for 34 felonies in New York. “We have to revoke this,” Trump told him, according to the specialized media.
Former President Trump has three other criminal cases pending, but it is very unlikely that the trials will be held before the November elections for the White House. EFE
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