The unindicted co-conspirator is reportedly hunkered down in a "cocoon of bitterness and resentment" following last week's election, "furious" and "trying to decide who to blame" for losing the House. So what's he doing with all that impotent fury? Trying to get his Freedom Caucus guy elected to lead the loser Republicans.
Child-molestation enabler Rep. Jim Jordan wants to be minority leader and Trump wants him there. Of course he does, because Jordan is the guy putting the blame where Trump does, on insufficiently Trumpy Republicans who did not repeal Obamacare or build the wall. "Two years ago," he said in an interview,"the American people elected President Trump to come to this town to shake it up and he's done just that. But I don't think they've seen this same intensity from House Republicans." He said that on Fox & Friends, so consider that his job interview with Trump.
Enter Trump in what Politico hilariously calls a "peacemaker" role between Jordan and the leader-designate Kevin McCarthy. That's the guy outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan wants and the guy who thinks Trump is on Putin's payroll.
Politico says Trump is urging McCarthy to "strike a deal with the conservative Freedom Caucus founder," a deal that is apparently putting Jordan at the top of the Republican heap in the House Judiciary Committee, where Trump apparently believes Jordan will stop Democrats from doing things like investigating whether he is indeed on Putin's payroll. That's not something McCarthy can actually do, appoint anyone into any ranking member job. The Republican Steering Committee makes that decision, and there are plenty of members there who have no great fondness for Jordan or any of his fellow maniacs. So there's that.
Expect the Trump tantrum to deepen when this bid fails, because McCarthy has the votes he needs and the scraps of Republicans left standing aren't going to be particularly eager to do anything for the guy in the sex abuse scandal. Either of them.