Former president Donald Trump expressed support for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) threatens to bring a vote to oust the Louisiana Republican from his leadership role.
A reporter asked the former president if he supports Greene’s motion to vacate. Trump, during a press conference with Johnson, said the speaker is “doing a very good job.”
“We’re getting along very well with the speaker, and I get along very well with Marjorie. We have a speaker who was voted in, and it was a complicated process. . . . It’s not an easy situation for any speaker,” Trump said.
“I think he’s doing a very good job. He’s doing about as good as you’re going to do, and I’m sure that Marjorie understands that,” he said. “She’s a very good friend of mine, and I know she has a lot of respect for the speaker.”
Greene, a strong Trump ally, previously filed a motion to vacate against Johnson but has not revealed when she plans to force a vote on her resolution.
During the same press conference on Friday, Trump also touched on the issue of abortion. A reporter asked why voters should trust his comments earlier this week that he would not sign a federal abortion ban if elected again.
“Because we don’t need it any longer. Because we broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible,” Trump said. “We gave it back to the states. And the states are working very brilliantly — in some cases conservative, in some cases not conservative. But they’re working, and it’s working the way it’s supposed to.”
“You’re having some very, very beautiful harmony, to be honest with you,” he added.
His comments come after he declined to endorse a nationwide abortion ban earlier this week and spoke in favor of leaving the issue to the states. He also said the Arizona supreme court went too far in upholding a law that bans nearly all abortions.