Former President Donald Trump expressed appreciation in a signed observe to the Washington, DC, Young Republicans (DCYR) for exposing a by no means Trumper in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) workplace who opposed the membership’s endorsement of Trump.
Trump’s observe was in response to emails completely obtained by Breitbart News that outed Johnson’s Director of House Operations Hannah Fraher for expressing unfounded considerations concerning the membership’s endorsement of Trump.
“Thank you for your great support,” Trump wrote to the DCYR on an e-mail obtained by Breitbart News. “Very much appreciated! Will not forget.”
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— Washington, D.C. Young Republicans (@WashingtonDCYRs) April 19, 2024
“We are very grateful for President Trump’s backup and his kind words of support,” the DCYR Executive Board instructed Breitbart News. “It is just not straightforward to reveal the DC Swamp, however we are going to do it each time. We utterly stand by our endorsement of President Trump and don’t care what number of RINOs are upset by that.
“We look forward to continuing our great relationship with him and his administration when he returns to power after the 2024 election,” they added.
DCYR endorsed Trump for president in May 2023, throughout the center of the GOP presidential main season when institution Washington, DC, insiders nonetheless believed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was a severe contender for the presidency.
The group’s endorsement got here simply months after America First members pulled off a coup d’etat towards institution management to reshape DCYR within the picture of America First. It now conducts conferences to debate conservative insurance policies and raises consciousness concerning the Biden administration’s managed decline of the nation. Club conferences characteristic conservative lawmakers, corresponding to Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
DCYR’s membership grew by 50 % within the months after implementing these reforms. Vish Burra, a member of the DCYR and the chief secretary of The New York Young Republican Club, mentioned the group’s development is because of Trump’s America First agenda. “The DCYRS is easily the fastest-growing in both numbers and influence among the YR clubs that have fully embraced and committed to President Trump’s America First agenda,” he instructed Breitbart News. “I expect them to be major players when President Trump inevitably returns to the White House in January 2025.”
Breitbart News’ Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle exposed Fraher’s “conniption” on Thursday:
Fraher is without doubt one of the strongest staffers in Johnson’s workplace and controls all issues referring to the Capitol grounds, entry to the constructing, and extra. The Speaker of the House has monumental management and energy over the Capitol advanced, and Fraher is his lead staffer on that entrance—and was employed into the place in November 2023, shortly after Johnson gained the speakership. According to her LinkedIn page, she beforehand labored as a senior counsel on the House Committee on Administration, and earlier than that, she labored in Johnson’s private workplace. She additionally beforehand served as a authorized aide for Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) and has a historical past of varied Republican positions courting again a decade to when she interned for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) within the first half of 2013 when Rubio was championing the Gang of Eight amnesty plan within the Senate. Rubio, after shedding the 2016 GOP presidential main to Trump, has since reformed on the difficulty of immigration and clearly discovered what was incorrect with that strategy, however when Fraher interned for him from January 2013 to May 2013, it was when he was pushing that plan.
What is revealed right here for the primary time is simply how aggressively anti-Trump this very highly effective Johnson aide actually is. Emails completely obtained by Breitbart News present that Fraher, whom Johnson employed into this prime place only a few months after she despatched these messages, melted down when the DC Young Republicans endorsed Trump for president in May 2023.
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Fraher, in response to the group’s endorsement announcement e-mail, accused the group of violating its bylaws by endorsing Trump. She demanded her dues be refunded, and he or she threatened to give up the group.
@NYYRC meets @WashingtonDCYRs at @CPAC! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/YuvrpzOzMJ
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) February 23, 2024
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the writer of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
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