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During Friday’s vote to elect the new Speaker of the House of Representatives there was a really tense moment when the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene passed her cell phone with Donald Trump on the line to a “rogue” Republican anti-Kevin McCarthy on the House floor.
The image that was captured by the graphic press shows Taylor Greene with cell phone in hand with the initials “DT” of the former president trying to pass the communication device to the Republican Matt Rosendale.
rosendalewho was in charge of voting against McCarthy for all four days, seems to ignore the call of the congresswoman from Georgia and said “present” on ballot number 15, helping to secure McCarthy’s vote.
This Saturday morning, Greene shared the image on Twitter amid reports that the former president had spoken to Republicans. who opposed the newly elected president Kevin McCarthy.
“It was the perfect phone call,” Greene tweeted along with a Bloomberg News photo showing her holding a cell phone that displayed a call from a contact named “DT”: Donald Trump.
Greene later also shared a photo of herself with McCarthy following the speaker’s choice, writing: “Congratulations, Mr. Speaker!”
On Wednesday, Greene — who from day one became McCarthy’s most ardent supporter — complained that three anonymous McCarthy opponents had sought committee seats for themselves, while she had not applied on her own behalf.
“You’d think I’d be the one there asking for something, but I haven’t. But I found out that it’s my Freedom Caucus and my so-called friends that went and did that, and they didn’t ask anything for me. Nothing. That’s what I found out there,” Greene said.