Trump’s arrest call to arms was bad. Kevin McCarthy just made it much worse.
The speaker's Saturday morning tweet was an empty threat against Manhattan's district attorney — but both distressing and unsurprising.
McCarthy told reporters in January, after finally gaining enough votes to win the speaker’s gavel. “I don’t think anyone should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning.”
That indebtedness — or at least perceived indebtedness — helps explain McCarthy’s cowardly response on Saturday to the looming threat of indictment that Trump faces in New York City. A few hours after Trump claimed he would be arrested on Tuesday, McCarthy called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into Trump’s alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels “an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump.” (MSNBC)
The Speaker of the House, the 2nd in line to become president of the United States, the man who sold whatever was left of his soul to members of his Caucus who aided and abetted an attempted Coup against our Government…KEVIN MCCARTHY has once again demonstrated, in public his disdain for Democracy, his dangerous allegiance to a wanna-be Dictator, and just how much DISTRUST any American who believes in the sanctity of nation, should have.
Trump's threats and warnings should be heeded, not ignored. The Dems sitting, especially in the House of Representatives should immediately press Kevin McCarthy to clarify his support of TRUMP. Then the Dems in the House should call upon the Republicans in the House, to be on record as to support Kevin’s cowardly actions or rather to support the safety of our Republic. I am AFRAID because the Speaker of the House is leaning toward violence and not justice.
