McCarthy wants you to know that he's with Trump — but doesn't want you to believe what the former president says. (via MaddowBlog)
But it was House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — who famously said he’d"" in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot, only to kiss Trump’s ring at Mar-a-Lago soon after — whose reaction stood out.
It was a cheap and unnecessary move. If McCarthy and other congressional Republicans want to remind the public that Trump enjoys the presumption of innocence, fine. If they want to predict that the former president, if he’s indicted, will eventually be acquitted, no problem. A day later, however, McCarthy added a new caveat to his message. “I don’t think people should protest this, no,” the speaker
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