Eric Swalwell slam dunks Kevin McCarthy

| 7:00 pm EDT April 27, 2022
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Amid the feeding frenzy over how ugly the Kevin McCarthy tapes are going to get, which one of his supposed allies recorded and leaked them, and what the fallout for McCarthy will be, a major point is being largely overlooked: McCarthy doesn’t say anything objectively scandalous on any of these tapes. Instead, McCarthy is in trouble because he’s been caught speaking the difficult truth about prominent members of his own party.

Of course shortly after these circa-January 2021 recordings were made, McCarthy went right back to being the pathetic butt kisser we’ve all long known and hated.

It’s so rare for any Republican to tell the truth these days, even Kevin McCarthy’s brief foray into privately admitting the truth was notable. As Eric Swalwell put it while ripping McCarthy to pieces, “America would be much better off if Kevin McCarthy’s tryst with the truth lasted longer than a week.”