The 45th President is renown as a pugnacious, in your face, instrument of bluster. He preens and debases, and snarls, and swears, and rants, and raves, and basically serves as the role model for which his Party simply cannot get enough. Yesterday was a prime example of Republican Trump wannabes doing what they all seem to want to do best; emulate their idol.
At one point, Speaker Mike Johnson was successfully brokering a House agreement to avoid a government shutdown. A crime recently deemed so heinous and politically incorrect, the rightest of right-wingers in the Grand Old Party punished then Speaker Kevin McCarthy by summarily relieving him of his duties. Yesterday, the Party collectively yawned, prompting McCarthy supporters to scream hypocrisy.
McCarthy himself may have temporarily lost his political equilibrium, as Representative Tim Burchett, of Tennessee accused the former Speaker of assault. Burchett claimed McCarthy elbowed him in the back while he was talking to a reporter after the House GOP conference meeting. He characterized the incident as, a ‘Clean shot to the kidneys. For his part, McCarthy denied the incident. He told CNN’s Melanie Zanona, “I didn’t shove or elbow him. It’s a tight hallway.” One small issue with Kev’s denial. As noted, Burchett was being interviewed at the time the incident ensued. The reporter, NPR’s Claudia Grisales, was an eyewitness. She described the events this way:
“While talking to @RepTimBurchettafter the GOP conferenc4 meeting, former @SpeakerMcCarthy walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me, I thought it was a joke. It was not. And a chase ensued…”
To add intrigue to injury, FL Rep filed an ethics complaint against McCarthy, stemming from the alleged assault.
But the political pyrotechnics didn’t end there. Over in the upper chamber, aka, the Senate, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) challenged Teamsters General President, Sean M. O’Brien, to a fight during a senate hearing. In another sign of the time, octogenarian Sen. Bernie intervened and stopped Mullin from engaging in the would-be fight.
The proverbial cherry on top was provided by Speaker Johnson, who celebrated defying the red line conservatives gave McCarthy by endorsing Trump, the ultimate pseudo-warrior, for President. "Just Another Day in TrumpWorld: From Blindsided to Full Frontal Squaring Off!"
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