Some Republicans favor an outsider to serve as the next US House speaker:
Yet the former president and current GOP 2024 frontrunner is ineligible for the post under the party’s own rules barring anyone under indictment for serious charges from any House leadership role.
Those rules would need to be changed for Trump as he is facing four felony indictments and 91 separate counts.
Donald Trump appears in the courtroom at New York State Supreme Court on October 3.
Photographer: Seth Wenig/Pool/Getty Images
“A lot of people have asked me about it,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “But we’ve got some great people in the Republican party that could do a great job as speaker.”
He ...