He won't let up on his feud with Matt Gaetz. How long is he going to hold on to this? Why did we even elect him to be speaker?
---Nearly two months ago, Matt Gaetz kicked off the process to oust McCarthy as speaker of the House.. McCarthy said he now thinks Matt Gaetz "belongs in jail."---
Nearly two months ago, Gaetz kicked off the process to successfully oust McCarthy as speaker of the House.
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Here is Liz Cheney writing about McCarthy...
Mr. McCarthy, the California congressman who was then the House Republican leader, had condemned Mr. Trump for fueling the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol and even suggested that he resign, only to turn around and effectively absolve the former president by embracing him again. In her new book, Ms. Cheney, perhaps
the country’s most vocal anti-Trump Republican, reports that Mr. McCarthy justified the Jan. 28 visit as an act of compassion for a beaten ally.
Ms. Cheney wrote that she was so shocked when she first saw the photograph of Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Trump standing side by side with grins on their faces that she thought it was a fake. “Not even Kevin McCarthy could be this craven, I thought,” she wrote. “I was wrong.” She went to see Mr. McCarthy to confront him about rehabilitating the twice-impeached former president who had just tried to overturn an election he lost.
“Mar-a-Lago?” she asked Mr. McCarthy, according to the book. “What the hell?”
He tried to downplay the meeting, saying he had already been in Florida when Mr. Trump’s staff called. “They’re really worried,” Mr. McCarthy said by her account. “Trump’s not eating, so they asked me to come see him.”
“What?” she recalled replying. “You went to Mar-a-Lago because Trump’s not eating?”
“Yeah, he’s really depressed,” Mr. McCarthy said.
In a new memoir, Liz Cheney wrote that Kevin McCarthy justified his trip to Mar-a-Lago by saying the former president was depressed after losing re-election.
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