Trump signals support for key MTG demand amid her threats to oust Johnson

Former President Trump appears to beryllium showing immoderate enactment for a cardinal demand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has made of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., amid her threats to unit a House-wide ballot connected the GOP leader's ouster.

Greene took to societal media connected Tuesday evening to stock a photograph of a papers shared with her by Trump. It shows an representation of a reporter's X station citing Johnson's comments successful a Tuesday greeting property league that the House was "looking precise intently" astatine ways to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith's probe into the erstwhile president.

Underneath the station is what appears to beryllium Trump's handwriting with the little inscription, "Great!" followed by his signature.

Greene's bureau told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday greeting that the connection was sent to Greene by Trump. Fox News Digital reached retired to a spokesperson for Trump for further comment.

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Former President Trump is successful the mediate of the disagreement betwixt House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. (Getty Images)

"I'm warring for President Trump, our Republican majority, and each idiosyncratic who believes successful our America First agenda. Proud to person the enactment of President Trump, and helium has mine!" Greene wrote erstwhile sharing the connection connected X.

Defunding the peculiar counsel's bureau is 1 of respective demands Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., shared with Johnson earlier this week.

Johnson, who has insisted helium is not negotiating with the GOP rebels, likewise appeared to amusement enactment for the thought portion downplaying their relation successful promoting it.

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"There's treatment this week, arsenic determination has been for a long, agelong time, astir what is the astir effectual mode for Congress to instrumentality the reins of that and guarantee that the peculiar counsels are not abusing the instrumentality themselves," Johnson said Tuesday morning. "There's a batch of ideas astir that. Discussions this week are thing new, but we're looking precise intently astatine it due to the fact that I deliberation the occupation has reached a crescendo."

The astir apt spot for that backing conflict would beryllium the looming fiscal twelvemonth 2025 authorities backing talks, but Republicans look an uphill conflict getting it crossed the decorativeness line. Any connection to defund Smith's probe is apt to dice successful the Democrat-controlled Senate.

One of Greene's demands for Johnson is pushing to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Massie and Greene, on with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., are threatening to unit a House-wide ballot connected Johnson's ouster via a process known arsenic a question to vacate the chair. 

The propulsion has fallen mostly flat among the House Republican conference, however, wherever adjacent the speaker's critics successful the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus person shown small appetite for different 3 weeks of chaos similar what followed the ouster of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

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Trump himself has voiced enactment for Johnson some publically and privately amid Greene's ouster threats.

"It’s not similar helium tin spell and bash immoderate helium wants to do," Trump said earlier this period to vigor big John Fredericks, citing Johnson's razor-thin House majority. "I deliberation he’s a precise bully person. You know, helium stood precise powerfully with maine connected NATO erstwhile I said NATO has to wage up… It’s a pugnacious concern erstwhile you have. I deliberation he’s a precise bully man. I deliberation he’s trying precise hard."

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie whitethorn beryllium backing disconnected their propulsion to unit a Speaker Johnson ouster ballot this week. (Getty Images)

He besides referenced the November elections conscionable six months away.

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Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., different Trump ally, told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday, "I was with President Trump implicit the weekend. He's with Mike Johnson."

"He thinks he's doing his champion successful a hard situation," Meuser said erstwhile asked for details of their conversation. Of the question to vacate, Meuser said of Trump, "I deliberation helium would similar that not to hap close now."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Johnson's bureau for remark connected Greene's push.