At an event, former President Kevin McCarthy said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) ousted him because he wouldn’t dismiss an ethics complaint that Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old girl.
McCarthy said:
And he adds a few seconds later: “Was it him? I don’t know.” https://t.co/S90dxOoRPv
— Jonathan Nicholson (@JNicholsonInDC) April 9, 2024
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Kevin McCarthy’s revenge tour appears to be in full swing.
McCarthy vented that he didn’t know if Matt Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old girl, but he knew that Gaetz wanted him to get rid of the ethics investigation into whether or not Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old. a one-year-old girl, and that’s why he was ousted as speaker.
Kevin McCarthy is still bitter about losing his job and appears intent on revenge against those far-right members of the House Republican conference who led the charge against him.
The former speaker has a lot of money in his political action committee and has already used some of it to target Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) who turned on McCarthy during the vacate motion, but his anger seems especially strong for Gaetz who was the ringleader and seemed determined to get rid of Kevin McCarthy from day one.
Kevin McCarthy is gone, but it looks like he’s trying to bring Matt Gaetz with him.
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