Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Monday minced no phrases together with her response to ousted Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) wholehearted endorsement of Donald Trump for president.
McCarthy, who’s retiring from Congress on the finish of December, on the weekend advised CBS’ Robert Costa that he’d back Republican front-runner Trump in the 2024 election and would also be willing to serve in a possible Trump cupboard.
“I can’t clarify it,” Cheney advised MSNBC’s Jen Psaki of McCarthy’s continued assist of the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted former actuality TV persona.
Cheney summed up McCarthy’s backing of Trump with two phrases: “Pathetic” and “unhappy.”
“There’s form of a component of it doesn’t actually matter what Donald Trump has achieved to the nation, what Donald Trump has achieved to the Congress, Donald Trump has achieved to Kevin McCarthy,” she mentioned.
It’s “simply form of going again for extra,” Cheney continued, suggesting historical past will present McCarthy’s “unwillingness to do the fitting factor and every time that call got here, did actual harm.”
McCarthy initially blamed Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, saying throughout a speech that the then-president “bears duty” for the violence.
However McCarthy then later visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago dwelling in a transfer that many commentators have advised was step one of the previous president’s rehabilitation amongst Republicans. He’s now the clear favourite to turn into the GOP nominee within the 2024 election.
In Cheney’s new guide “Oath and Honor,” the previous lawmaker mentioned McCarthy advised her he’d gone to see Trump as a result of he’d been advised Trump wasn’t consuming and was depressed. Trump, nonetheless, claimed final week that he’d actually been eating too much.
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“It is pathetic… I believe it is unhappy, however I additionally suppose historical past goes to point out that Kevin’s unwillingness to do the fitting factor… did actual harm.”@Liz_Cheney reacts to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s endorsement of Trump pic.twitter.com/aSEzJqZxbZ
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) December 12, 2023
Cheney equally called McCarthy “pathetic” last week when he introduced his imminent departure from the Home.
“I believe that he’s a pathetic determine in some ways in our historical past,” she advised conservative pundit Charlie Sykes on “The Bulwark Podcast.”
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