McCarthy Visited Mar-a-Lago After January 6 Because Trump Was ‘Not Eating’

• In her upcoming e-book. Liz Cheney reveals why Kevin McCarthy visited Mar-a-Lago after January 6.
• Cheney wrote McCarthy stated Trump was “depressed” after the assault on the Capitol and wasn’t consuming.
• McCarthy confronted sharp criticism for standing by the previous president within the wake of the assault.

In her forthcoming e-book, “Oath and Honor,” former Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney revealed that Kevin McCarthy’s closely criticized go to to Mar-a-Lago following the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol was prompted by concern over former President Donald Trump being “depressed.”

McCarthy made the controversial journey to the South Florida resort simply three weeks after the assault that left 5 folks lifeless, producing outrage from political allies and adversaries alike who thought-about the go to inappropriately timed.

“Mar-a-Lago? What the hell, Kevin?” Cheney requested the then-Home Minority Chief from California following his go to, CNN reported in an excerpt from her e-book.

“They’re actually frightened,” McCarthy instructed Cheney, who on the time was the chair of the Home Republican Convention. “Trump’s not consuming, so they requested me to return see him.”

“What? You went to Mar-a-Lago as a result of Trump’s not consuming?” Cheney responded.

“Yeah, he is actually depressed,” McCarthy stated, based on Cheney.

Representatives for McCarthy — in addition to Little, Brown and Firm, the writer of Cheney’s new e-book — didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.

McCarthy has since defended his choice to go to with Trump, saying on the time that their assembly was an effort to unite the social gathering forward of the 2022 midterms.

Within the e-book, the previous congresswoman additionally wrote that a number of different Republicans have been “indignant and disgusted” at McCarthy’s go to, with some members making enjoyable of their onetime chief over the journey.

“Some mocked him, circulating the Trump/McCarthy picture together with the clip from the film Jerry Maguire the place Tom Cruise tells Renée Zellweger, ‘You.. full… me,” Cheney wrote within the e-book, based on CNN.

When the picture was taken, Republicans had already begun plotting their technique for profitable again the Home, as they’d picked up over a dozen seats within the 2020 elections and have been just some seats shy of a majority.

In “This Will Not Move: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” a e-book by journalists Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, the pair reported that McCarthy privately instructed a lawmaker he was not anticipating to take a photograph with the ex-president.

“I did not know they have been going to take an image,” McCarthy reportedly stated, based on the e-book.

After the GOP received a razor-thin Home majority within the 2022 elections, McCarthy was naturally in line to be the subsequent speaker, however he confronted pushback from a number of conservative hardliners. Dissent from a lot of these far-right Republicans pressured 15 rounds of voting in January earlier than McCarthy lastly secured the requisite variety of votes to imagine the speakership.

Trump, on the time, sought to take credit score for McCarthy’s ascension, stating that he had carried out “an enormous favor” by elevating the California lawmaker to the high-profile function.

However McCarthy’s tenure lasted lower than a 12 months.

In October, after Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida put ahead a movement to vacate the chair, McCarthy was ousted from the speakership, unable to quell a number of hardliners over their push for sizable funds cuts.

Cheney, who for years had been seen as a future chief inside the social gathering, clashed mightily with Trump after January 6 and served because the vice chair of the high-profile Home committee that probed the assault that day. She sought reelection in 2022, however was ousted in Wyoming’s GOP major by now-Rep. Harriet Hageman.

The e-book is ready to be launched on December 5.