By Martin Walsh, Red State:
Members of the House Freedom Caucus sat down for an interview with the Washington Examiner on Thursday following President Trump tweeting about the apparent “need” to “fight” the Freedom Caucus ahead of the 2018 elections.
Chairman Mark Meadows, interestingly enough, indicated the disagreements weren’t with the executive branch, but rather with aides working closely with the president.
Short answer? Meadows is probably 100 percent correct.
“He’s got a number of advisers around him that are used to the way that Washington, D.C., does business,” Meadows said. “They are giving him advice based on what they’ve known has worked or not worked over the last two decades here in Washington, D.C. So, do I blame the president [for the failure of the American Health Care Act]? No.”
Meadows was then pressed to name aides in particular that he thought were driving a wedge between the president and the Caucus.
Meadows, not taking the bait, vaguely added: “In general, I just say he’s not being well-served.”
Meadows circled back to Trump’s aides a second time in the interview when he said, “Campaigning one way and legislating another is a recipe for disaster. And we’re trying to keep our president from disaster because of the advice that he’s getting.”
Thursday, just a few hours before the interview, Trump sent out a tweet suggesting the Freedom Caucus would be the enemy in 2018.
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