.MaddowBlog: Trying to defend Pres. Trump, House Republican Leader McCarthy caught off guard by reality.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy occasionally gets into trouble for saying embarrassing things in private. A few years ago, for example, shortly before Donald Trump clinched the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, McCarthy told his House GOP colleagues he thought Trump might be on Vladimir Putin’s payroll.
Last night, the House Minority Leader appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes to defend the president against the Ukraine scandal, but McCarthy appeared lost when Scott Pelley presented him with basic factual information. I don’t understand why McCarthy didn’t know that. In fact, when the House GOP leader was presented with the now-infamous quote, he reflexively assumed that the CBS News correspondent was engaged in a public deception, “adding another word.”
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