{"id":49361,"date":"2021-05-12T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49361"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:30:53","slug":"gop-leader-mccarthys-brain-dead-statement-on-the-legitimacy-of-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49361","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leader McCarthy&#8217;s Brain Dead Statement on &#8216;the Legitimacy of the Presidential Election&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Party of Trump (aka Republican Party) has affirmed its long-standing aversion to democracy. They officially drummed ultra-conservative Rep. Liz Cheney out of her party leadership post, and probably out of the party entirely. And that&#8217;s just the latest action taken against the apostates who dare to challenge the supremacy of Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-mccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even prior to the Cheney exile, a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48542\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frenzy of censures had been imposed<\/a><\/strong> on the disobedient disciples who betrayed Dear Leader. They include Sen. Bill Cassidy, Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Ben Sasse, Sen. Pat Toomey, Sen. Mitt Romney, Rep. Peter Meijer, Rep. Fred Upton, Rep. Tom Rice, Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, Gov. Brian Kemp, and Gov, Doug Ducey, so far. All of which makes clear that the Republican Party (aka Party of Trump) has no tolerance for independent thinking or truth telling.<\/p>\n<p>Adding absurdity to the demise of irony, the GOP minority leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, spoke to reporters following the Cheney ouster. Responding to inquiries about Trump&#8217;s relentless promulgation of the <em>&#8220;Big Lie&#8221;<\/em> (that the election was stolen) McCarthy said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. I think that that is all over with. We are sitting here with the president today. So from that point of view I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a problem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, hours after ousting Rep. Liz Cheney from leadership: &quot;I don&#39;t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. That&#39;s all over with. We are sitting here with the president today.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VK0aohLipa\">pic.twitter.com\/VK0aohLipa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1392525883060236289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>WHUT? Apparently McCarthy is unfamiliar with the raving former reality TV game show host who is pathologically obsessed with <em>&#8220;questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.&#8221;<\/em> Donald Trump hasn&#8217;t stopped ranting about it for the six months that have transpired since his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden. So far this week he has posted two tirades on the subject over at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49280\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his new, and hysterically lame, blog<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/desk\/desk-x3nk392q9z\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If<\/a> a thief robs a jewelry store of all of its diamonds (the 2020 Presidential Election), the diamonds must be returned. The Fake News media refuses to cover the greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/desk\/desk-atfhk3v5my\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All<\/a> States should pass Voter ID laws along with many other fair and comprehensive election reforms, like eliminating mass mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, so we never again have an election rigged and stolen from us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for nobody questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. What on Earth is McCarthy talking about? Can he possibly be this cognitively comatose? And it isn&#8217;t just the Former Guy. Many GOP disciples of Trump are also still asking the same preposterous questions. Cheney&#8217;s expected replacement, Elise Stefanik is among them. Also, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>This could turn out to be a problem for McCarthy. What will Trump think of his declaration that the election of Biden was legitimate? Trump has castigated anyone who suggested such a thing in the past. It&#8217;s the whole reason why Cheney was banished to the corn field. And on Wednesday morning Trump lashed out at her, calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/desk\/desk-au8zr963cu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her<\/a> <em>&#8220;a bitter, horrible human being.&#8221;<\/em> So what does that make McCarthy?<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy and other Trump apologists are pretending that the election is old news and they just want to move on. But no one has told Trump that. What&#8217;s more, it would be unwise &#8211; even dangerous &#8211; to dismiss Trump&#8217;s persistent lying. It was his hostile rhetoric that incited the Capitol riots on January 6th. And ignoring that fact would only serve to make the prospects of further violence more likely.<\/p>\n<p>But then, maybe that&#8217;s what McCarthy and his GOP confederates really want. If they had any integrity or principles they would listen to what Cheney said Wednesday morning before the vote to oust her:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liz Cheney: Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that. I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the President\u2019s crusade to undermine our democracy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ozJ9ctSQlr\">pic.twitter.com\/ozJ9ctSQlr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1392272566568427520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Party of Trump (aka Republican Party) has affirmed its long-standing aversion to democracy. They officially drummed ultra-conservative Rep. Liz Cheney out of her party leadership post, and probably out of the party entirely. And that&#8217;s just the latest action taken against the apostates who dare to challenge the supremacy of Trump. Even prior to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,1200,16],"tags":[554,1140,1150,831],"class_list":["post-49361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-liz-cheney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-mccarthy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cQ9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48542,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48542","url_meta":{"origin":49361,"position":0},"title":"CANCEL CULTure: Intolerant GOP Censures Members Who Voted to Impeach Trump","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/14\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that Donald Trump has made history as the first reality TV game show host to be impeached twice, his toxic legacy is infecting the Republican Party that kneeled before him for four excruciating years. 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