I was not surprised that you would not post the real issues.
New audio was released of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claiming that Donald Trump agreed he has some responsibility for the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
Former President Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) spoke on the phone on Thursday after a recently released tape showed that the lawmaker planned to ask Trump to resign over the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection, the Washington Post reports and Axios has confirmed.
State of play: During the conversation, Trump did not seem upset about the contents of the tape and was thankful that McCarthy did not actually urge him to step down, per the Post.
The audio threatens to badly damage the relationship between McCarthy and Trump, who remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party, despite his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection and his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. And it could threaten McCarthy’s standing with House Republicans aligned with Trump, whose support he will need for votes to become House speaker next year.
The audio depicts a very different McCarthy from the one who has been leading House Republicans over the last year and a half and who has remained allied with Trump even after delivering a speech on the House floor shortly after Jan. 6, during which he called the attack on the Capitol “un-American.” At the time, McCarthy called the assault among the saddest days of his career and told his fellow Republicans that Trump “bears responsibility” for the violence.
Even after the violence, though, McCarthy joined half of the House Republicans in voting to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory.
Since then, the California Republican has distanced himself from any criticism of Trump and has avoided directly linking him to what happened. Within weeks of the siege at the Capitol McCarthy said he did not think Trump provoked the attack, as other prominent Republicans said at the time.
All it would take is one wink and nod from Donald Trump now, and Kevin McCarthy would have serious problems getting the speaker's gavel. | Getty Images
DRIVING THE DAY
For years now, through controversy after controversy, House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY has bent over backward to stay in former President DONALD TRUMP’s good graces, all to serve one major purpose: He wants to be speaker someday.
That hope may have just blown up on the launchpad.
On Thursday night, NYT’s Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns delivered an absolute stunner of a scoop: an audio recording of a phone call on Jan. 10, 2021, in which McCarthy is heard clearly and unambiguously saying that Trump was responsible.
What happens on the tape: McCarthy essentially conspires with Rep. LIZ CHENEY (R-Wyo.) about how to get Trump to step down as president after the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the call, Cheney — now Trump’s Enemy No. 1, but at the time, the House GOP’s No. 3 leader — asks McCarthy if Trump is going to resign. McCarthy responds: “I mean, you guys all know him, too — do you think he’d ever back away? But what I think I’m going to do is I’m going to call him … The only discussion I would have with him is that I think this [impeachment resolution] will pass and it would be my recommendation you should resign.”
Making this all the more explosive is the backstory to the recording’s release:
Early Thursday morning, the NYT published a piece by Martin and Burns drawing on the reporting for their forthcoming book, “This Will Not Pass.” They revealed that McCarthy (1) described Trump’s conduct related to Jan. 6 as “atrocious and totally wrong,” (2) called on Trump to resign and (3) “inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th Amendment” to remove him from power.McCarthy’s office denied Martin and Burns’ reporting. In a statement, the GOP leader called it “totally false and wrong.”Then, on Thursday night, Martin and Burns went on RACHEL MADDOW’s MSNBC show with audio proof that their reporting was correct — making McCarthy look silly in the process.
THE BIG QUESTION NOW: IS MCCARTHY TOAST? We made a bunch of calls to top Republicans both on and off the Hill on Thursday night, and there are two big things to watch here that could answer that question in the coming days:
1) Trump himself. All it would take is one wink and nod from the former president, and McCarthy would have serious problems getting the gavel. The former president has turned against those he views as unloyal Republicans for less. He recently unendorsed Alabama Rep. MO BROOKS’ Senate bid because Brooks — who backed his efforts to overturn the election — said it was time for Republicans to move on from relitigating 2020. Will Trump view McCarthy’s sin as worse? And if so, does he withhold his support for “My Kevin,” as he once called him, in his bid for speaker?
There are a few views on this:
We caught up with one senior House Republican and McCarthy ally who noted that Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) also reportedly threatened to use the 25th Amendment against Trump over Jan. 6 — and has otherwise criticized Trump on occasion — but has remained firmly on his good side. This ally argued that McCarthy should be just fine, called the audio a “nothingburger” and predicted that Trump will move on.Another senior Republican official (someone who is not on the Hill but is frequently in touch with Trump’s camp) argued that McCarthy could make the case to Trump that he was looking out for the president in this situation, wanting him to resign before he embarrassed himself with a conviction in an impeachment trial.
Two key questions that may help decide Trump’s reaction:
Did McCarthy deny the reports in conversations with Trump himself? That’s something multiple Republicans we spoke to Thursday night wondered. And if he did, will Trump be furious that he was misled?Will Trump forgive McCarthy after hearing the audio on an endless loop on cable news?
2) Conservative House Republicans. How do MAGA die-hards like Reps. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.) and MATT GAETZ (R-Fla.) react? They’ve already suggested they could oppose McCarthy for speaker. Does this reporting spark a rebellion?
One senior House Republican aide told us Thursday night that there’s already some grumbling among the rank and file over a report by Burns and Martin that McCarthy wanted to get some of his own members kicked off Twitter — and you can expect that to dominate GOP conversations when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next week. (On MSNBC, J-Mart teased that they have audio of McCarthy saying this, too.)
How will the more traditional House Republicans react? The senior GOP lawmaker noted that many Hill Republicans freaked out during and after the Jan. 6 attack. “Thank God my private conversations weren’t recorded after Jan. 6,” the lawmaker said. “We were all very emotional.” In that sense, they argued, Republicans on the Hill could be more forgiving of McCarthy because they were in the same boat: concerned about Trump, but too afraid of him to do or say anything about it.
The senior GOP aide, however, wasn’t so sure. They noted that the entire situation Thursday shows that McCarthy has a “trust” issue.
“He’s a bald-faced liar who literally just has no problem completely lying. And that doesn’t sit well with members,” the senior aide said. Still, they noted that McCarthy has plenty of time before a potential speaker run to win back any defectors.
Second audio clip of House Republican leader released: 'He bears responsibility for his words and actions'
The New York Times just released another clip of Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy telling Republican leaders that he believes Donald Trump was responsible for the January 6 insurrection.
In the clip, McCarthy can be heard detailing a conversation he had with Trump where he asked the former president whether he believes he had responsibility for the attack.
“Well, let me be very clear to all of you, and I’ve been very clear to the president: He bears responsibility for his words and actions. No if’s, and’s or but’s. I asked him personally today, “Does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad about what happened?” He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he needs to acknowledge that,” McCarthy said in the clip, which was just played live on CNN. The audio comes from a call that took place January 11, 2021.
She should not be allowed to run for office again 😒
The far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared in court in Georgia on Friday for a hearing in an attempt to bar her from Congress for aiding the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy considered urging Trump to quit, audio reveals
Read more
The effort, brought by a coalition of voters and liberal groups, to bar Greene comes under the 14th amendment to the US constitution. Passed after the civil war, it was written to prevent anyone from sitting in Congress if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the constitution “or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof”.
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Some people in the room in Atlanta cheered and applauded as Greene took her seat. As the hearing began, Greene tweeted: “Only the People have the right to choose who they send to Congress.” Matt Gaetz of Florida, another far-right Republican congressman and prominent Donald Trump supporter, was also pictured in the room, and tweeted: “I’m here in Atlanta to support [Greene] against the assault on democracy that is this effort to remove her from the ballot.”
Supporters of Trump attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to stop certification of his defeat by Joe Biden, an attack mounted in service of the 45th president’s lies about electoral fraud.
A bipartisan Senate committee connected seven deaths to the riot. More than 100 law enforcement officers were hurt. About 800 people, including members of far-right and militia groups, have been charged, some with seditious conspiracy. A House investigation continues.
Trump was impeached for inciting an insurrection, but acquitted when Senate Republicans stayed loyal.
Organisers of events in Washington on January 6 have said Greene communicated with them. Greene has denied such links, and said she does not encourage violence.
You are correct. NYT "Bombshell" reporting is like taking the National Inquirer headline about Elvis and Bigfoot sightings serious.
Do you even see the irony here that you are posting another sad NYT piece on a thread about how a liberal news network just died because nobody takes liberal media seriously?
So there is my reply Roger.
I find it amusing that you cling onto this stuff as if Kevin McCarthy actually means something to you and your day to day life of wondering if a nurse left the front door open (so you can claim to be free to come and go) and what food will be cut up and served to you today.
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I was not surprised that you would not post the real issues.
New audio was released of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claiming that Donald Trump agreed he has some responsibility for the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1517511138912595968?s=20&t=cTAnV19qqo-Yw8k3m0bl3Q
Former President Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) spoke on the phone on Thursday after a recently released tape showed that the lawmaker planned to ask Trump to resign over the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection, the Washington Post reports and Axios has confirmed.
State of play: During the conversation, Trump did not seem upset about the contents of the tape and was thankful that McCarthy did not actually urge him to step down, per the Post.
https://www.axios.com/
LOL.
One of the better lines I heard about this today -
"This is like the sinking of the Titanic...
...in dry dock."
Faux news doesn't mention it
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I was not surprised that you would not post the real issues.
Using a bullshit kangaroo court to disqualify Trump from running again is not a "real issue' alky.
"THE NIXON TAPES!!!11!"
LMAO.
Drunken sot.
Hypothetical bullshit.
The audio threatens to badly damage the relationship between McCarthy and Trump, who remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party, despite his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection and his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. And it could threaten McCarthy’s standing with House Republicans aligned with Trump, whose support he will need for votes to become House speaker next year.
The audio depicts a very different McCarthy from the one who has been leading House Republicans over the last year and a half and who has remained allied with Trump even after delivering a speech on the House floor shortly after Jan. 6, during which he called the attack on the Capitol “un-American.” At the time, McCarthy called the assault among the saddest days of his career and told his fellow Republicans that Trump “bears responsibility” for the violence.
Even after the violence, though, McCarthy joined half of the House Republicans in voting to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory.
Since then, the California Republican has distanced himself from any criticism of Trump and has avoided directly linking him to what happened. Within weeks of the siege at the Capitol McCarthy said he did not think Trump provoked the attack, as other prominent Republicans said at the time.
I haven't had a drink for almost 10 years now
Scott.
Scott!
SCOTT!!!
NIXON TAPES, SCOTT!!!
I'm here to save you Scott!!!
SCOTT!!!
THEY'RE GOING TO LET ME OUT OF HERE SOMEDAY, SCOTT!
THIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY BECAUSE I SCREWED UP, SCOTT!
PLEASE UNBLOCK ME ON FACEBOOK, SCOTT!
Playbook: Is Kevin McCarthy toast?
By RACHAEL BADE, EUGENE DANIELS and RYAN LIZZA
04/22/2022 06:18 AM EDT
Presented by
All it would take is one wink and nod from Donald Trump now, and Kevin McCarthy would have serious problems getting the speaker's gavel. | Getty Images
DRIVING THE DAY
For years now, through controversy after controversy, House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY has bent over backward to stay in former President DONALD TRUMP’s good graces, all to serve one major purpose: He wants to be speaker someday.
That hope may have just blown up on the launchpad.
On Thursday night, NYT’s Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns delivered an absolute stunner of a scoop: an audio recording of a phone call on Jan. 10, 2021, in which McCarthy is heard clearly and unambiguously saying that Trump was responsible.
What happens on the tape: McCarthy essentially conspires with Rep. LIZ CHENEY (R-Wyo.) about how to get Trump to step down as president after the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the call, Cheney — now Trump’s Enemy No. 1, but at the time, the House GOP’s No. 3 leader — asks McCarthy if Trump is going to resign. McCarthy responds: “I mean, you guys all know him, too — do you think he’d ever back away? But what I think I’m going to do is I’m going to call him … The only discussion I would have with him is that I think this [impeachment resolution] will pass and it would be my recommendation you should resign.”
Making this all the more explosive is the backstory to the recording’s release:
Early Thursday morning, the NYT published a piece by Martin and Burns drawing on the reporting for their forthcoming book, “This Will Not Pass.” They revealed that McCarthy (1) described Trump’s conduct related to Jan. 6 as “atrocious and totally wrong,” (2) called on Trump to resign and (3) “inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th Amendment” to remove him from power.McCarthy’s office denied Martin and Burns’ reporting. In a statement, the GOP leader called it “totally false and wrong.”Then, on Thursday night, Martin and Burns went on RACHEL MADDOW’s MSNBC show with audio proof that their reporting was correct — making McCarthy look silly in the process.
THE BIG QUESTION NOW: IS MCCARTHY TOAST? We made a bunch of calls to top Republicans both on and off the Hill on Thursday night, and there are two big things to watch here that could answer that question in the coming days:
1) Trump himself. All it would take is one wink and nod from the former president, and McCarthy would have serious problems getting the gavel. The former president has turned against those he views as unloyal Republicans for less. He recently unendorsed Alabama Rep. MO BROOKS’ Senate bid because Brooks — who backed his efforts to overturn the election — said it was time for Republicans to move on from relitigating 2020. Will Trump view McCarthy’s sin as worse? And if so, does he withhold his support for “My Kevin,” as he once called him, in his bid for speaker?
There are a few views on this:
We caught up with one senior House Republican and McCarthy ally who noted that Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) also reportedly threatened to use the 25th Amendment against Trump over Jan. 6 — and has otherwise criticized Trump on occasion — but has remained firmly on his good side. This ally argued that McCarthy should be just fine, called the audio a “nothingburger” and predicted that Trump will move on.Another senior Republican official (someone who is not on the Hill but is frequently in touch with Trump’s camp) argued that McCarthy could make the case to Trump that he was looking out for the president in this situation, wanting him to resign before he embarrassed himself with a conviction in an impeachment trial.
Two key questions that may help decide Trump’s reaction:
Did McCarthy deny the reports in conversations with Trump himself? That’s something multiple Republicans we spoke to Thursday night wondered. And if he did, will Trump be furious that he was misled?Will Trump forgive McCarthy after hearing the audio on an endless loop on cable news?
2) Conservative House Republicans. How do MAGA die-hards like Reps. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.) and MATT GAETZ (R-Fla.) react? They’ve already suggested they could oppose McCarthy for speaker. Does this reporting spark a rebellion?
One senior House Republican aide told us Thursday night that there’s already some grumbling among the rank and file over a report by Burns and Martin that McCarthy wanted to get some of his own members kicked off Twitter — and you can expect that to dominate GOP conversations when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next week. (On MSNBC, J-Mart teased that they have audio of McCarthy saying this, too.)
How will the more traditional House Republicans react? The senior GOP lawmaker noted that many Hill Republicans freaked out during and after the Jan. 6 attack. “Thank God my private conversations weren’t recorded after Jan. 6,” the lawmaker said. “We were all very emotional.” In that sense, they argued, Republicans on the Hill could be more forgiving of McCarthy because they were in the same boat: concerned about Trump, but too afraid of him to do or say anything about it.
The senior GOP aide, however, wasn’t so sure. They noted that the entire situation Thursday shows that McCarthy has a “trust” issue.
“He’s a bald-faced liar who literally just has no problem completely lying. And that doesn’t sit well with members,” the senior aide said. Still, they noted that McCarthy has plenty of time before a potential speaker run to win back any defectors.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/04/22/is-kevin-mccarthy-toast-00027137
Second audio clip of House Republican leader released: 'He bears responsibility for his words and actions'
The New York Times just released another clip of Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy telling Republican leaders that he believes Donald Trump was responsible for the January 6 insurrection.
In the clip, McCarthy can be heard detailing a conversation he had with Trump where he asked the former president whether he believes he had responsibility for the attack.
“Well, let me be very clear to all of you, and I’ve been very clear to the president: He bears responsibility for his words and actions. No if’s, and’s or but’s. I asked him personally today, “Does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad about what happened?” He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he needs to acknowledge that,” McCarthy said in the clip, which was just played live on CNN. The audio comes from a call that took place January 11, 2021.
Scott will refuse to respond.
She should not be allowed to run for office again 😒
The far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared in court in Georgia on Friday for a hearing in an attempt to bar her from Congress for aiding the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy considered urging Trump to quit, audio reveals
Read more
The effort, brought by a coalition of voters and liberal groups, to bar Greene comes under the 14th amendment to the US constitution. Passed after the civil war, it was written to prevent anyone from sitting in Congress if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the constitution “or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof”.
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Some people in the room in Atlanta cheered and applauded as Greene took her seat. As the hearing began, Greene tweeted: “Only the People have the right to choose who they send to Congress.” Matt Gaetz of Florida, another far-right Republican congressman and prominent Donald Trump supporter, was also pictured in the room, and tweeted: “I’m here in Atlanta to support [Greene] against the assault on democracy that is this effort to remove her from the ballot.”
Supporters of Trump attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to stop certification of his defeat by Joe Biden, an attack mounted in service of the 45th president’s lies about electoral fraud.
A bipartisan Senate committee connected seven deaths to the riot. More than 100 law enforcement officers were hurt. About 800 people, including members of far-right and militia groups, have been charged, some with seditious conspiracy. A House investigation continues.
Trump was impeached for inciting an insurrection, but acquitted when Senate Republicans stayed loyal.
Organisers of events in Washington on January 6 have said Greene communicated with them. Greene has denied such links, and said she does not encourage violence.
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Scott will refuse to respond.
Scott.
Scott!
SCOTT!!!
NIXON TAPES, SCOTT!!!
I'm here to save you Scott!!!
SCOTT!!!
THEY'RE GOING TO LET ME OUT OF HERE SOMEDAY, SCOTT!
THIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY BECAUSE I SCREWED UP, SCOTT!
PLEASE UNBLOCK ME ON FACEBOOK, SCOTT!
PLEASE RESPOND SCOTT!!!
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It’s so pathetic
Roger....
You are correct. NYT "Bombshell" reporting is like taking the National Inquirer headline about Elvis and Bigfoot sightings serious.
Do you even see the irony here that you are posting another sad NYT piece on a thread about how a liberal news network just died because nobody takes liberal media seriously?
So there is my reply Roger.
I find it amusing that you cling onto this stuff as if Kevin McCarthy actually means something to you and your day to day life of wondering if a nurse left the front door open (so you can claim to be free to come and go) and what food will be cut up and served to you today.
Guys, I'm thinking about changing my handle to RRB+.
Thoughts?
LOL.
LOL
Rat...
Then you can charge $9.99/month for people to read your opinions that they can get for free now?
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Rat...
Then you can charge $9.99/month for people to read your opinions that they can get for free now?
Precisely!
Oh wait.
Never mind.
I thought I was Republican Rat Stelter for a moment there.
LOL.
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