On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend, the co-hosts did what they could do downplay and dump on the magnitude of Mike Johnson’s first-ballot election as Speaker of the House, and on Trump’s contribution to that victory.
But panelists Julie Tsirkin and Eugene Daniels showed some surprising independence.
Co-host Symone Sanders portrayed Trump’s call to House holdouts as “slapdash.” And co-host Michael Steele claimed Trump had to be persuaded to “come in off the back nine” to make the call.
But NBC News correspondent Tsirkin said that Trump actually made two calls, during which he made the case that Johnson was the only person who could garner the required 218 votes. Tsirkin described the Speaker vote as an “important test” for Trump. One that he obviously passed.
Later, when Tsirkin said that one thing Johnson has going for him is that both…
