House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), likely the next speaker of the House if Republicans maintain control of that chamber in the 2018 elections, dodged questions Sunday on the admission of President Donald Trump’s legal team that the White House lied to the American people.
In an interview with McCarthy Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked about a 20-page letter from Trump lawyers Jay Sekulow and John Dowd to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in January. The New York Times published the letter Saturday.
Part of the letter includes the admission that Trump himself “dictated” his son’s July statement to the Times regarding the campaign-era meeting in Trump Tower between Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton and members of the Trump campaign.
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow last year repeatedly denied that the President had any role in crafting that statement, which falsely claimed the meeting had been primarily about adoption.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in August of last year that Trump “certainly didn’t dictate” the statement, but that he “weighed in, offered suggestions, like any father would do.” Both Sekulow and Sanders’ claims, according to the letter published Saturday by the Times, are lies.
Watch McCarthy avoid questions about those lies below:
WATCH: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dodges questions on the White House and Jay Sekulow's lies regarding Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians promising "dirt" on Hillary Clinton. pic.twitter.com/4bOOMgDXgi
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) June 3, 2018
So glad Mr. Shuham remembered to add that caveat.
I remember the last time McCarthy was mentioned as the next speaker of the House, “Hungria”
Does that mean, he no longer sleeps with Renee Ellmer ?
Remember that famous and extremely controversial “X-Files” episode about the family of mutants who were the product of decades and decades of genetic inbreeding?
Yeah, me too.
The fact that the “dirt on HRC” was too lame to suit them looks especially hilarious in light of all the crimes committed by the GOP to get it, cover up their digging, and all the smashing-and-grabbing they’ve been doing since their rigged lottery-win presidency.
If they lose the house/senate, the bills passed during the lame duck session will be diabolically nutty: mandatory coal-powered wind turbines, etc.
Yeah, the “dirt on HRC” was such a fucking joke. It’s like they were expecting payoffs to the Bin Laden family and leather-clad lesbian playmates and affairs with pool boys possessing porn-star penises, but instead they got the equivalent of a video of Hillary farting in an office building elevator in Little Rock in 1985.