McCarthy Kisses Trump’s Ring After Briefly Acknowledging Ex-POTUS’s Role In Insurrection

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), scrambling to redeem himself after momentarily recognizing President Donald Trump as the instigator of the bloody Capitol siege earlier in January, met with the former president Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1357322

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump…swear to God."

–K. McCarthy, c. 2016

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Ring?

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This is what grinning and bearing it looks like.

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Nothing says “mob boss” like a gold tie.

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Pathetic boot-licking arse-kissing apple-polishing brown-nosing loser of a sycophantic easy mark. Trump now owns you, b-atch.

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Not the one on his small hands.

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I remember this goofy bastard letting it go about Operation Glacial Pace - the investigation into Hillary, Part Whatever.

This whole thing is a product of the Koch brothers being so racist they funded any character with a tri-corner hat.

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Well, as of Jan 6th, he finally became that which he always looked up to, a mob boss. But as usual, he did it wrong.

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The coup is still in progress and Nancy and Chuck shelter in their decorum. Majority leader and speaker are enabling this behavior by letting it continue.

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I wonder what he’s being blackmailed about.

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McCarthy Kisses Trump’s Ring

Really odd way of spelling “ass”.

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So someone in Trump’s circle DOES know how to do a readout.

The trappings Trump is surrounding himself with “Office of the Former President” and doing readouts is all performative.

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So a potential witness in Trump’s impeachment has been tampered with? How are Trump’s threats to primary and “destroy” any senator who votes against him not jury tampering?

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McCarthy Kisses Trump’s Ring…

Which ring of Chiselin’ Trump’s three-ring circus did he kiss?

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“McCarthy then watered down his initial remarks by claiming that ‘everybody across the country’ was responsible.”

I’m surprised he could speak with his mouth so full.

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You don’t get to be gop minority leader without knowing how to talk out both sides of your mouf.

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“McCarthy then watered down [seriously!?!] his initial remarks by claiming that “everybody across the country” was responsible.”

To say that everybody is responsible is to say that nobody is responsible.

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McCarthy Kisses Trump’s Ring

Wow, that sure didn’t go the way I thought it would.

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McCarthy Kisses Trump’s Ring

“Ring” has to be the weirdest euphemism for “fat ass” I’ve ever seen.

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