McCarthy was the House Republican leader during Donald Trump’s attempted coup and famously visited the former president within weeks of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, posing for a smiling photo with the man whose supporters had laid siege to the U.S. Capitol.

“There are two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump” - Kevin McCarthy before being shushed by Paul “Granny Starver” Ryan

Cheney, one of a handful of Republicans who consistently spoke out against the riot and Trump’s actions leading up to it, wrote in her new book that she had confronted McCarthy about the trip to Mar-a-Lago at the time, to which he allegedly responded: “Trump’s not eating, so they asked me to come see him.”

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