The leaked audio of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in the days following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, in which he indicated support for some House Republicans to lose their Twitter accounts, shows the Republican leader is shameless, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday.
Jeffries, a New York Democrat, told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday that “the radical-right playbook is simple.”
“It’s not complicated. It’s in our face each and every day,” Jeffries said. “It’s a five-point playbook: No. 1, lie. No. 2, lie. No. 3, lie. No. 4, lie. No. 5, lie again.”
“That’s the radical-right playbook,” he continued. “Lie about COVID, lie about the economy, lie about the election, lie about Democrats, lie about the border. Lie and lie again.”
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Exempting Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who are a part of the committee investigating the events leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, for praise, Jeffries said House Republicans “lie with impunity.”
“Facts don’t matter,” said Jeffries, the fourth-ranking House Democrat. “Hypocrisy is not a constraint to their behavior. And they think that shamelessness is a superpower.”
In audio of a phone call days after the riot recently published by the New York Times, McCarthy, who is angling to become House speaker should Republicans win a majority in the chamber in the fall, seemed to indicate that he would support some of the more controversial members of the conference also losing their Twitter accounts. The call took place shortly after Twitter suspended then-President Donald Trump from the platform.
In the audio, amid a discussion about a tweet by Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama defending killed Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, McCarthy said, “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?”
In the months since, McCarthy has publicly blasted Twitter for its suspension of Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, accusing the platform of censoring conservative viewpoints.
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House Republicans have largely stood by McCarthy amid the controversy, with some exceptions, including Rep. Matt Gaetz, who wrote in a statement that McCarthy’s comments were “sniveling.”
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 26, 2022
