WASHINGTON (AP) – Kevin McCarthy, leader of the Republican House, claims he is not familiar with an extremist conspiracy theory that his supporters have joined …
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Kevin McCarthy, leader of the House of Representatives, claims he is not familiar with an extremist conspiracy theory, whose supporters joined the violent attack on Congress and hunted for its members as well as Democrats . He says he did not even learn how to pronounce it.
This, despite the fact that he expressed the same conspiracy theorists months ago.
Rep KEVIN McCARTHY: “Ask, I do not know if I say it right. I do not even know what it is. “- commented on Wednesday on the defense of rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene despite her history of absurd and racist statements, some of which are in line with QAnon beliefs.
THE FACTS: McCarthy knew enough about QAnon to denounce it at a politically advantageous moment after the Democratic National Convention in August.
In a Fox News interview, McCarthy was then asked if he was concerned about candidates with fringe benefits or racist views who, like Greene, won Republican primary. He maintained the Republican Party as the model for how to deal with such outliers.
“Let me be very clear,” he said. “There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party. I do not support it. ”
McCarthy accused the Democrats of being anti-Semitic and said, “I think the Democrats need to take a lesson from the Republicans and stand up for the things that are non-American and wrong.”
In addition, he said: “If a member of the Republican Party says something that we do not think is about Lincoln’s party, we remove it from the committee.”
But that’s not at all what happened Wednesday during a closed Republican meeting convened by McCarthy. He rebuked Greene’s view, but did not recall her instructions from the committee. He then defended her, saying she criticized QAnon during the meeting.
The House plans to vote Thursday on whether Greene will be relieved of her committee duties after McCarthy refused to do so. In contrast, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell attacked her ‘loony groin’ as a cancer in the party.
Until Thursday, Greene was defiantly unrepentant and said, “I will never retire.” But at the height of the House’s vote on her future, she utters a few words from the past without apologizing and says she does not believe some of the opinions she has expressed.
The Republican of Georgia has sufficient statements on racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim views. She also ran an unfounded conspiracy theory that falsely suggested that the 2017 shooting that killed 58 people at a Las Vegas music festival could possibly be staged to build support for gun control.
She questioned whether the massacre of children and adults in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, among other things, was mass shootings. She “liked” Facebook posts advocating violence against Democrats and the FBI, and the idea of shooting home speaker Nancy Pelosi in the head.
She once stated that the ‘stage’ was for someone’s proposal that former pres. Barack Obama is hanged.
QAnon is focused on the core lie that top Democrats are involved in child sex trafficking, Satan worship and cannibalism.
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