"What’s now clearer than ever is that [House Republican Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy saw helping with Trump’s insurrection coverup — which itself is arguably an extraordinary betrayal of the country — as essential to keeping the GOP united and on a path to win the House majority.
"Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 committee, says this new reporting strengthens the case that Trump sought to use mob violence to obstruct the official proceeding of counting the presidential electors — a potential crime — by impeding the lawmakers themselves.
“'This is a meaningful corroborating detail in the already abundant evidence that Trump set about to interfere with this crucial federal proceeding, the peaceful transfer of power,” Raskin told me, noting that this also “underscores McCarthy’s complicity in helping Trump cover up for the dangerous violence that he had unleashed.'”
"Now imagine McCarthy as speaker of the House." -- Greg Sargent in the Washington Post, commenting on revelations in books by Robert Draper and by Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade about the Malignant Loser and his hold on the GQP. The significant role of spineless traitor Rep. Kevin McCarthy in keeping the Malignant Loser from "blowing up the party" after the January 6 insurrection by caving to his "Big Lie" will go down as one of the most infamous chapters in American history (assuming it doesn't go down the memory hole should the GQP fascists eventually take power).
Rep. Raskin's comments suggest that the January 6 committee hearing scheduled for this Thursday, as well as the committee's final report, will clearly define McCarthy's traitorous complicity in undermining American democracy. Sargent goes on to imagine what McCarthy would do as Speaker of the House, and the danger he poses as someone with no scruples or convictions other than gaining power, working with a Malignant Loser with similar character traits.
