Playbook: “The agenda, we’re told, will be resolutely forward-looking. A potential 2025 legislative agenda will be a central focus, with tax policy, foreign relations and entitlements all teed up for discussion.”
“That’s the plan, anyway. The reality is that Trump, true to nature, has been obsessed in recent weeks with harnessing the powers of Congress to fight on his own behalf and go to war against the Democrats he accuses of ‘weaponizing’ the justice system against him.”
“It’s a campaign he orchestrated in the days after his May 31 conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, starting with a phone call to the man he wanted to lead it: Speaker Mike Johnson.”
“Trump was still angry when he made the call, according to those who have heard accounts of it from Johnson, dropping frequent F-bombs as he spoke with the soft-spoken and pious GOP leader.”
