Former President Donald Trump hesitated to involve himself in saving Kevin McCarthys speakership beyond a single post on Truth Social . Instead he immediately asked those around him about who could potentially replace McCarthy with one underlying theme in mind Who would be the most loyal to him . Trump had liked McCarthy as speaker because he knew the California Republican was unfailingly loyal . He scoffed privately to multiple people at names being thrown around of more moderate members like Tom Emmer the majority whip . It wasnt long before Trump began telling Republicans during multiple phone conversations that Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan was his pick while also making clear that he didnt want to publicly disclose that decision yet with an endorsement . The plan to travel to Washington where he would potentially make the endorsement during a GOP meeting Tuesday ran into a brick wall when Rep. Troy Nehls tweeted the following Thursday night caught Trump and his circle off guard with a tweet . The tweet forced Trump to post his own shortly after midnight affirming that Jordan had his endorsement . He had been reluctant to do so that tweet that he had his own . Trump could always change his mind though people close to Trump noted he could always be changing his mind and said he could still change his decision to go back and change it again . He said he would always change it and said that he could change his position as soon as he did not want to change his opinion. The plan was to go away again and that he would not change it. He had said he had been unwilling to change it . He did not comment. He said his decision. He would not comment again. He has said he didn’t want to comment again, but that he didn’t want to say again. It is not clear whether he had a
President Donald Trump endorsed Jim Jordan for House speaker . Jim Jordan is a conservative Republican who
