Donald Trump: I’ll take over as Speaker for 90 days
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6...8af3ae4b753834
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Donald Trump has said he will accept the speakership of the House of Representatives for up to 90 days in an effort to unite the fractured Republican Party.
Speaking to Fox News on Thursday night, the former president, 77, said that he was willing to step in and serve as the “unifier” of his party, days after his supporters in the House voted to remove Kevin McCarthy, another Republican, prompting a crisis that threatens to leave lasting divisions.
“I have been asked to speak as a unifier because I have so many friends in Congress,” Trump said. “If they don’t get the vote, they have asked me if I would consider taking the speakership until they get somebody longer term, because I am running for president.”
“I would only do it for the party,” he said, stressing that his focus was on his presidential campaign...
… Some of his supporters in the House, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman, have argued that Trump would be the best candidate for the speakership, the third most senior position in the United States behind the president and vice-president.
Were Trump to win the backing of colleagues, the party would have to change its rules to accommodate him.
Trump is ineligible as Republicans bar people with felony indictments from serving in the role. Trump is facing 91 criminal charges in the four cases.
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If this were to go ahead, if anything unfortunate were to happen to the President and Vice-President, the Speaker would become Acting President (there is some debate about this, as Trump would not be an elected (by the people) Member of Congress, but an appointed Speaker (which has never happened before)).