House Freedom Caucus Member Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) urged President Trump to continue working with the caucus, because they have been a staunch ally of his throughout his tenure.

Gohmert said on "Sunday Morning Futures" that Trump and the Freedom Caucus came to agreements twice during the ObamaCare replacement negotiations, but that "establishment" figures convinced the president to rebuff them.

Republican 'establishment' leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus "had a meeting" and decided to "go to war against the people that defended the president, when Ryan and those guys abandoned him," Gohmert said.

He said the ObamaCare replacement bill that nearly made it to a vote would have caused consumer costs to rise and given the government more authority in health care.

"If the bill passes, the president's administration will be defined for the next four years as a fraud," Gohmert said, because the voters will notice that their health care would get worse.

Gohmert, 63, said the environment during the negotiations felt like that of the 2008 Wall Street bailout or the President George H.W. Bush-era tax hike: "We got to get this done."

He added that President Ronald Reagan "only succeeded" when he rebuffed the establishment and aligned himself with conservative Republicans.

Gohmert said the Republican establishment would get a "twofer" from passing their version of health care reform: "destroy" conservatives and "make the president look terrible."

Appearing to refer to last October, when Ryan was recorded on a conference call saying he would "not defend Donald Trump" in the wake of the infamous Billy Bush tape leak, Gohmert said the president "can work with the people that got him there, that defended him, when others, like Ryan and the establishment were running scared."

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Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2

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The ObamaCare debacle has me worried. The Freedom Caucus opposed Ryan's replacement plan because it looked too much like a warmed over version of the original. ObamaCare Lite as it was called. I am very much disappointed President Trump supported Ryan's version because that is not what he promised.

Moreover he allowed himself to be manipulated by Ryan when told there enough votes to pass the Lite bill when there were not. The result made the President look amateurish and inept (perhaps that was the plan all along) and the forces of the Left had a field day ridiculing the President when his first major policy program failed. Now we are being told there will be no further action on ObamaCare at least for the foreseeable future. So the thing we were supposed to be rid of off the bat is still with us and will be until heaven knows when (another part of the original plan?).

It was the Freedom Caucus what brought him to the dance and the President had best realize that both for his sake as well as ours.

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The Estabishment = The Swamp = Dems and Republicans!

What's obvious is that the Swamp does not take kindly to being drained! We've pulled our hair out dealing with the likes of McCain and Lady Lindsay finding a way to compromise and prevent the conservative agenda from coming into being. I'm looking for DT to negotiate a way through the Swamp