Liz Cheney Offers Blistering Summary Of Kevin McCarthy’s Legacy

“But I also think it’s important not to minimize the damage that he did because even though he’s somebody who didn’t seem to have strong ideological beliefs, he was leading the Republicans in the House. And at each moment, when his determination to do the right thing could have made a difference, he determined instead to do the wrong thing.”

McCarthy had introduced that he would depart workplace on the finish of the month after he was voted out of his speakership in October in a vote instigated by a hard-right bloc inside his personal caucus. His departure will slender the House GOP’s already razor-thin majority.

McCarthy was the House Republican chief throughout Donald Trump’s tried coup and famously visited the previous president inside weeks of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, posing for a smiling picture with the person whose supporters had laid siege to the U.S. Capitol.

After initially saying the then-president bore accountability for the assault, McCarthy quickly flip-flopped and returned to defending Trump.

Cheney, one in every of a handful of Republicans who persistently spoke out in opposition to the riot and Trump’s actions main as much as it, wrote in her new e-book that she had confronted McCarthy in regards to the journey to Mar-a-Lago on the time, to which he allegedly responded: “Trump’s not eating, so they asked me to come see him.”

Cheney’s e-book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” grew to become an on the spot bestseller when it was launched Tuesday.