The Speaker is in may ways more powerful than the president. He keeps laws he wants moving forward and laws he doesn't want stalled in committee. He enforces party discipline by yanking people off committees and chairmanships if he wants. Speaker Tip O'Neil was legend. Presidents had to kiss his azz.
Really all a president has is the veto, the bully pulpit, and the Justice Department which he could not use politically until the Peedough Joe came along and turned the country into a banana republic, where you sent the secret police against anyone who ever said a word against you. Or who said you were an election cheater. Just like Somoza, Pinochet, Saddam, or the Shah of Iran. America used to be special. Not any more. These dictators always had their shills out, just like here, cheering that the subversivos' sentences were not long enough.
Constitutionally there is nothing in the way of Trump being Speaker. The Constitution says it can be anyone they want.
It is the duty of the other candidates, like Steve Scalise, to withdraw and pave the way for Trump. This is a masterstroke which puts the worst of the last 3 nightmare years behind us.
You want to see people get involved in politics again?
No more Ukraine war
Close the border
No more funds for scamdemics or death shot mandates
No more political persecutions by DOJ, or cut off funding
Free the tortured J6 political prisoners
United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121
Trump says he would serve.
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