Former President Trump is set to address the House Republican conference on Thursday, multiple sources confirmed to The Hill, a meeting that will come exactly two weeks after Trump’s conviction for falsifying business records in the New York hush money case.
House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) advised members that there will be a special GOP Political Conference meeting on Thursday featuring Trump. It is expected to take place at 9:30 a.m., one source said. Another source said it would take place at the Capital Hill Club.
A Trump adviser confirmed plans for the meeting.
“The Speaker and the House GOP Leadership look forward to hosting President Trump on Thursday morning to discuss growing the House Republican majority and the 2025 legislative agenda,” a spokesperson for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said.
Trump is also set to meet with a group of Senate Republicans on Thursday for a policy-focused conversation ahead of the November elections. The former president will be in Washington for a discussion hosted by the Business Roundtable.
Thursday’s planned meeting between Trump and House Republicans marks the latest show of support GOP lawmakers have offered the former president after a 12-person jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the case centered on a $130,0000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Last week, Johnson unveiled a “three-pronged approach” to go after the justice system in the wake of Trump’s conviction, which includes using the appropriations process, legislation brought to the floor and Congress’s oversight authority.
Republicans have slammed Trump’s conviction, arguing that the case was politically motivated, criticizing the judge who oversaw the trial, and denouncing the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen, as untrustworthy. Scores of Republicans — including Johnson — traveled to Manhattan during the trial to stand by the former president amid the proceedings.
“The American people are intelligent and they understand intuitively what’s happening here and they see a two-tiered system and they see that President Trump is being targeted for who he is and because he is soon to be the official nominee of of the one of the two main parties in the country,” Johnson said at a press conference last week.
Top Republicans are already looking to make headway on that blueprint. Earlier this month, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) requesting that his panel include a series of “reforms” in the upcoming government funding process, including eliminating funding for the FBI “that is not essential for the agency to execute its mission” and nixing federal funding for “state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in lawfare.”
Brett Samuels contributed.
Updated at 12:18 p.m.
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