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(AP) \u2014 Donald Trump<\/a> made a triumphant return Thursday to Capitol Hill, whipping up House and Senate Republicans in his first meetings since the Jan.6, 2021<\/a> attacks, embraced by GOP lawmakers who find themselves newly energized by his bid to retake the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the federal charges against Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election<\/a>, and his recent guilty verdict<\/a> in an unrelated hush money trial, the Republican former president arrived emboldened as the party\u2019s presumptive nominee. He has successfully purged the GOP of critics, silenced most skeptics and enticed once-critical lawmakers aboard his MAGA-fueled campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A packed room of House Republicans sang \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to Trump in the private breakfast meeting at GOP campaign headquarters across the street from the Capitol. The lawmakers gave him a baseball and bat from the annual congressional game. Trump bragged that even his telephone rallies for lawmakers could draw bigger crowds than mega-popstar Taylor Swift, who has yet to make any endorsement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump brought an extraordinary amount of energy, excitement and enthusiasm this morning,\u201d said House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>, noting high fund-raising tallies since the guilty verdict. \u201cWe\u2019re feeling good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republican speaker had demurred earlier over whether he\u2019s asked Trump to respect the peaceful transfer of presidential power and commit to not doing another Jan. 6. \u201cOf course he respects that, we all do, and we\u2019ve all talked about it, ad nauseum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump told Johnson Thursday he thinks the speaker is doing a \u201cterrific job,\u201d according to a Republican in the private meeting and granted anonymity to discuss it. He asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the speaker\u2019s chief Republican critic, if she was being \u201cnice\u201d to Johnson, another Republican said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump spent about an hour with House Republicans delivering free-wheeling remarks, fielding questions and discussing issues \u2014 including Russia and immigration<\/a> and also tax cuts and other priorities for a potential second term. On one major controversial issue, Trump told lawmakers that abortion rules should be left to the states and said he supported exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother, lawmakers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republicans welcomed Trump next in the afternoon, as protesters clamored at both locations and police beefed up security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many potential priorities for a new White House administration are being formulated by a constellation of outside groups, including Project 2025<\/a>, laying the groundwork for executive and legislative actions, though Trump has made clear he has his own agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnybody who thought that this president was going to be down after the sham trial. it\u2019s only giving him even more energy,\u201d said Rep. Tom Emmer, the GOP whip. \u201cDonald Trump is crushing this election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trump\u2019s private meetings with House and Senate Republicans so close to the Capitol were infused with the symbolism of his return as the U.S. president who threatened the American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating,\u201d said former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn<\/a>, who made his own unsuccessful run for Congress as a Maryland Democrat in the aftermath of Jan. 6, the day when police engaged in hand-to-hand fighting to stop Trump supporters who stormed the building in an effort to overturn President Joe Biden\u2019s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunn spoke of the \u201cirony\u201d of Trump returning to the area and lawmakers now embracing him. \u201cIt just shows the lack of backbone they have when they\u2019re truly putting party and person over country,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden was overseas Thursday attending a summit of the Group of Seven<\/a> leading industrialized nations, but the president\u2019s campaign unveiled a new ad blaming Trump for lighting the \u201cfire\u201d of Jan. 6 and threatening democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those who once stood up<\/a> to Trump are long gone from office and the Republicans who remain seem increasingly enthusiastic about the possibility of him retaking the White House, and the down-ballot windfall that could mean for their own GOP majorities in Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday was to include an encounter between Trump and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who once blamed Trump for the \u201cdisgraceful\u201d attack that he called an \u201cinsurrection\u201d but now endorses<\/a> the party\u2019s presumptive nominee. \u201cOf course I\u2019ll be at the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. John Thune, the GOP whip who is vying to replace McConnell as leader, told The Associated Press that he was interested in hearing from Trump about the fall election. \u201cI think there\u2019s an opportunity there to really make this a big win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As democracies around the world come under threat from a far-rightward shift, some analysts warn that the U.S. system, once seemingly immune from authoritarian impulses, is at risk of populist and extremist forces like those that Trump inspired to sack the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is just another example of House Republicans bending the knee to Donald Trump,\u201d said Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, the chairman of the House Democratic caucus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making Jan. 6 a cornerstone of his reelection campaign, Trump celebrates those who stormed the Capitol as \u201cwarriors\u201d and \u201cpatriots,\u201d and he has vowed to pardon any number of the more than 1,300 convicted of crimes for the assault on the seat of U.S. democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, Trump has vowed to seek retribution by ousting officials at the U.S. Justice Department, which is prosecuting him in a four-count indictment to overturn the election ahead of the Jan. 6 attack and another case over storing classified documents at his Mar-A-Largo home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans, particularly in the House but increasingly in the Senate, are vigorously following his lead, complaining of an unfair justice system. Alongside Trump, the House and Senate GOP campaign arms scored some of their highest fundraising periods yet after a jury found him guilty in the New York hush money case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When former GOP Speaker Paul Ryan on Fox News reiterated this week that he wouldn\u2019t be voting for Trump and wished Republicans had another choice for president, he was immediately ostracized by Trump allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPaul Ryan, you\u2019re a piece of garbage,\u201d said Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas. \u201cWe should kick you out of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over Jan. 6 and convict him on the charge of inciting the insurrection, only a few remain in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, were not expected to attend Thursday\u2019s closed-door session with Trump. But Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, had a change of plans and was to join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said he would likely join the Trump meeting at GOP senators\u2019 campaign headquarters, expecting \u201che\u2019s going to be the next president, so you have to work\u201d together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked if he was concerned about the direction of the Trump Republican Party, Cassidy said: \u201cLet the day\u2019s own troubles be sufficient for the day. You can fill yourself up with anxiety about tomorrow, but will it change a thing? No.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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