Elizabeth Warren has clearly had enough of Kevin McCarthy's antics
This post was originally published on this site
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was quite clear on Sunday when she appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and addressed The New York Times report that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy lied when he said he would urge former President Donald Trump to resign following the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Audio published by the Times revealed on Thursday that he did intend to.
“Kevin McCarthy is a liar and a traitor,” Warren said. “This is outrageous, and that is really the illness that pervades the Republican leadership right now.”
RELATED STORY: Awkward recording of Kevin McCarthy emerges hours after his denial. What else do reporters have?
She continued:
“That they say one thing to the American public and something else in private. They understand that it is wrong what happened, an attempt to overthrow our government. And that the Republicans instead want to continue to try to figure out how to make 2020 election different instead of spending their energy on how it is that we go forward in order to build an economy, in order to make this country work better for the people who sent us to Washington. Shame on Kevin McCarthy.”
In the audio in question, Rep. Liz Cheney asked McCarthy if there any reason he thinks Trump might resign.
“I’ve had a few discussions. My gut tells me no,” McCarthy responded. “I am seriously thinking about having that conversation with him tonight. I haven’t talked to him in a couple days.”
He went on to say: “Again, the only discussion I would have with him is that I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign.”
McCarthy told reporters in remarks covered by CBS News on Friday that he “just walked through different scenarios” and that he “never thought that he should resign.”
He tried to lay blame with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
”I think the phone call was overblown,” McCarthy said, “because as we worked through this and we learned days later that Nancy Pelosi has denied the National Guard there to be able to protect that Capitol. That made people much more upset.”
The Associated Press revealed in its investigation that the claim earlier tweeted by Indiana Rep. Jim Banks is false. Pelosi doesn’t decide when to use the National Guard. That decision is made by the Capitol Police Board, a body composed of sergeants at arms in the House and Senate and the architect of the Capitol, the AP reported.
“The Speaker believes security officials should make security decisions,” Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Pelosi, told the Associated Press in an emailed statement. “The Speaker immediately signaled her support for the deployment of the National Guard when she was presented with that recommendation on the afternoon of January 6th. Public testimony confirms the fact that the Speaker was not made aware of any request for such a deployment prior to then.”
Another day, another McCarthy lie.