Former Rep. Kevin McCarthy threw shade at Rep. Matt Gaetz, saying he's the only reason he was ousted from the speakership because he wouldn't help the lawmaker get rid of an ethics complaint.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to reporters hours after he was ousted as Speaker of the House, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. McCarthy opted to leave effective Dec. 31 rather than serve among the rank-and-file. (AP …, saying he’s the only reason he was ousted from the speakership because he wouldn’t help the lawmaker get rid of an ethics complaint.
“That is such a misnomer in life. Let me give you the truth about that, and I’ll give you the truth why I’m not speaker,” he said at the event Tuesday. “It is because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old, an ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker, and that’s illegal, and I’m not gonna get in the middle,” he said.is facing an investigation from the House Ethics Committee into whether he had sex with a minor while he served in Congress. The probe started roughly a year after the Justice Department closed an investigation into Mr.
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