Senator Bro from MO Josh Hawley tells CNN’s Manu Raju that convicted felon President-Elect Trump just found out on Wednesday what was in the continuing resolution government funding bill and decided it was “horrible” based on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy bitching about it.
“I know for a fact that Mike Johnson hasn’t talked to him about all of this and about what’s in the CR because Trump told me. So he needs to figure this out,” Hawley said, adding that Trump is “not read into this… and he’s just learning about it.. He’s just reading about it.” Meaning reading MAGA tweets.
Raju writes that Johnson’s team had been talking to Trump the entire time the funding bill was being written, which nobody has any real reason to doubt – except for maybe the fact that there’s no way Donald was actually listening and just nodded the whole time, probably looking at underage nudes Matt Gaetz had texted him. And why would he care? The specifics are pretty boring. But now that Trump has to look like he’s delivering for his base he needs to assert control and fuck everything up.