House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) Director of House Operations Hannah Fraher had a Never Trump conniption when the Washington, DC, Young Republicans endorsed former President Donald Trump for president, emails obtained by Breitbart News present.
Fraher is among the strongest staffers in Johnson’s workplace and controls all issues regarding 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 received 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 mistaken 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 solely obtained by Breitbart News present that Fraher, whom Johnson employed into this high place only a few months after she despatched these messages, melted down when the DC Young Republicans endorsed Trump for president in May 2023.
The DC Young Republicans issued the endorsement of Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign for president on May 24, 2023, at 8:12 p.m. ET. “Now, more than ever, we need a champion. We need a leader that knows how to fight and who to fight,” the DC Young Republicans mentioned within the endorsement of Trump. “We need a Caesar with the experience to navigate the battlefield and the instinct and vigor to charge forward like a young crusader. We need a President that puts America First. We need Donald J. Trump in 2024.”
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The motive that date and time are important is that that’s the day that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 GOP presidential main in opposition to Trump, and he had finished his widely-panned campaign launch with Elon Musk on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter, simply hours earlier than. A Republican membership endorsing a former GOP president for reelection would in any other case appear unremarkable and be customary GOP fare, however what occurred in response to the DC Young Republicans emailing the endorsement to its membership record is especially revealing.
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 she or he threatened to give up the group.
“Given this is in violation of the bylaws, I would like a refund of my dues,” Fraher wrote again to the board of the DC Young Republicans. “Let me know however it is easiest for you to make that happen.”
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The group’s official e mail account wrote again to her in all caps: “NO REFUNDS!”
Fraher replied with an obscenity.
“That’s fucking ridiculous. You’re a joke,” Fraher replied.
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The DC Young Republicans e mail account dismissed her issues in reply: “Don’t care loser.”
That was not the top of it, both. Fraher, sources conversant in the matter advised Breitbart News, completely melted down in particular person in emotional interactions with others within the nation’s capitol about all of it in anti-Trump tirades. Fraher often criticized Trump and attacked the previous president, complaining about him to a number of individuals who spoke with Breitbart News. Sources conversant in the matter say Fraher often whined about Trump’s persona and mentioned issues like she might by no means support him for president in 2024.
At the time she despatched these emails, per her LinkedIn web page, she was working in Johnson’s private congressional workplace as a “senior counsel.” She went to work for the House Administration Committee for a number of months from June 2023 to November 2023. Johnson would, in fact, go on to change into Speaker of the House in October 2023, only a few months after then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted, and shortly thereafter, he introduced Fraher again onto his workforce within the senior capability wherein she presently serves.
Johnson’s spokesman Raj Shah has not answered detailed questions on this matter from Breitbart News, together with if Johnson nonetheless has confidence in Fraher given these revelations. Shah has additionally not answered a query Breitbart News despatched him for Fraher specifically, particularly whether or not she nonetheless hates Trump or if she helps him now that he’s the presumptive GOP nominee for president.
“Not commenting,” Shah merely mentioned in response to inquiries on the matter.
Fraher, sources conversant in the matter add, has not too long ago advised individuals she intends to attempt to get a job in a future Trump administration ought to Trump win the election in November. It is unclear if this episode would hamper that risk, however given the Trump workforce’s lengthy reminiscences with different GOP staffers and consultants, it might appear that this might issue into such a choice.
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