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Trump for Speaker: Texas Republican Nominates Donald J Trump as Potential House Leader Amid McCarthy’s Ouster

ByAlki David

Oct 5, 2023

In a bold move that could reshape the political landscape, Texas Republican Troy Nehls announced his intention to nominate former President Donald J Trump as the next speaker of the US House of Representatives. Nehls declared, “President Trump, the greatest president of my lifetime, has a proven record of putting America first and will make the House great again.”

This surprising development follows the unprecedented removal of Kevin McCarthy, a move that sent shockwaves through the Republican party. Unlike McCarthy, who faced internal opposition, Nehls and another congressman, Greg Steube of Florida, have thrown their support behind Trump’s potential candidacy for speaker.

It’s worth noting that the speaker doesn’t have to be a member of Congress, a fact that opens the door for Trump to assume a role he has never held before. However, Trump’s name has been previously floated in this context, particularly during a January vote where right-wing factions tested McCarthy’s leadership.

While Nehls didn’t vote to remove McCarthy, his endorsement of Trump as a speaker nominee adds momentum to the idea. In a broader political landscape, Trump remains a dominant figure, leading the Republican presidential primary despite facing 91 criminal charges and civil threats, including a New York fraud trial and a defamation case related to a rape allegation deemed “substantially true” by a judge.

Speculation surrounding Trump’s potential withdrawal from the presidential race has been fueled by revelations in Michael Lewis’s latest book. According to the author, disgraced cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried contemplated offering Trump a staggering $5 billion to step aside.

Fox News, a media outlet closely aligned with Trump, reported on Tuesday that “some House Republicans” have initiated efforts to draft Trump as a potential speaker. Sean Hannity, a long-time ally of Trump, hinted at this development, underlining the ongoing influence and appeal that the former president holds within the party.

As the political landscape continues to evolve, the possibility of Donald Trump assuming the role of House speaker adds a new layer of intrigue to an already tumultuous period in American politics.

By Alki David

Alki David — Publisher, Media Architect, SIN Network Creator - live, direct-to-public communication, media infrastructure, accountability journalism, and independent distribution. Born in Lagos, Nigeria; educated in the United Kingdom and Switzerland; attended the Royal College of Art. Early internet broadcaster — participated in real-time public coverage during the 1997 Mars landing era using experimental online transmission from Beverly Hills. Founder of FilmOn, one of the earliest global internet television networks offering live and on-demand broadcasting outside legacy gatekeepers. Publisher of SHOCKYA — reporting since 2010 on systemic corruption inside the entertainment business and its expansion into law, finance, and regulation. Creator of the SIN Network (ShockYA Integrated Network), a federated media and civic-information infrastructure spanning investigative journalism, live TV, documentary, and court-record reporting. Lived and worked for over 40 years inside global media hubs including Malibu, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong and Gstaad. Early encounter with Julian Assange during the first Hologram USA operations proved a formative turning point — exposing the realities of lawfare, information suppression, and concentrated media power. Principal complainant and driving force behind what court filings describe as the largest consolidated media–legal accountability action on record, now before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Relocated to Antigua & Barbuda and entered sustained legal, civic, and informational confrontation over media power, safeguarding, and accountability at Commonwealth scale.