Ryan and McCarthy want you to believe they were joking about Russia’s war on Western civilization
A bunch more bombshells hit Washington, D.C. late Wednesday, but one hits hard in the heart of the Republican establishment: The Washington Post’s scoop of a recording in which Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy “jokes” that Trump is on Putin’s payroll. When the Post approached Speaker Paul Ryan’s and McCarthy’s staff with the quotes, they both immediately denied it ever happened, said they weren’t originally given quotes but just told that McCarthy had said this, and generally tried to stonewall, but once the Post told them there was a recording and they heard it and had the transcript, it all became …read more
Source: Daily Kos
