Trump started the meeting with Republican House members by making a remark about Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, now House majority leader, after the 2017 shooting at the Congressional baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia.
“Steve shows great courage. I saw him in the hospital. I can tell your wife really loves you, Steve, because some wives wouldn’t care.”
Moving quickly from topic to topic, a source in the room said, Trump also boasted about his “no tax on tips” plan inside.
Trump said he is expanding the electoral battleground map to New Mexico, New Jersey, Minnesota and Virginia, per a source. The former president also attacked the DOJ as “dirty no-good bastards,” per another source in the room.
Trump playfully asked Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to be nice to Speaker Mike Johnson, per a source in the room. Greene has tried to oust Johnson.
Then Trump shifted to doing an impression of Biden. He started laying out a series of differences between him and Biden on the economy.
Trump also attacked Republican California Rep. David Valadao, who voted to impeach him. “I never loved him,” Trump said, per a member. He bragged about how there are barely any “impeachers” left in the House GOP, per members in the room, and he mocked former Reps. Tom Rice and Liz Cheney.
