Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) refusing to do his Constitutional job of providing oversight of the Executive branch
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) went on to CNN’s “State of the Union” show the morning of June 3, 2018, and multiple times refused to answer host Dana Bash’s opening question. It has been found that many members of the White House have lied about Donald Trump’s involvement of the statement that his son, Donald Trump Jr., gave a year after the July 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian government officials. That statement from Trump Jr. ended with, “My father knew nothing of the meeting or these events.”
It has now been uncovered, in a confidential memo that Trump Sr.’s lawyers sent to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, that Trump dictated that statement to his son. At the time of the statement (July 2017), multiple White House officials blatantly lied and said that the President had nothing to do with that statement. The CNN interview shows a few of those clips of Jay Sekulow (on Trump Sr.’s legal team for the Russia investigation) and Sarah Huckabee Sanders (White House Press Secretary). CNN’s Bash asked McCarthy, “Are you bothered by the fact that the White House lied about the President’s involvement here?” The Republican Majority Leader then went on to obfuscate and misdirect, and basically say anything except answer the question.
Recognizing this attempt at stonewalling, Bash further pressed McCarthy, “Mr. Leader, I understand that those are the talking points, but this is a specific question: are you concerned that the White House — you heard the soundbites, you saw the statement from his own lawyers — they lied. Does that concern you?” McCarthy refused to answer the straightforward question a second time. Dana then realizes he isn’t going to be honest at all, and so ends that line of questioning with, “OK, you don’t want to answer the question about the lies.” What she should have said was that the main reason for inviting people on the show is for them to answer the interviewer’s questions, and that if he was unwilling to do so then they would stop the interview right then and there.
This is a crucial moment in our democracy. The Legislative branch is supposed to act as a check on the Executive branch. It has become obvious that the Republicans in Congress (save a few that are leaving office in a few months) have no desire to take that Constitutional responsibility seriously, and in fact some members have acted in direct opposition to that mandate. In order to save this great nation of ours, we must get rid of these representatives that refuse to do their job. This November we must vote out the complicit, and put in new members that will uphold the Constitutional oath.
Use your own eyes and ears of McCarthy’s derelict of duty:
