Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy didn’t appreciate the way he sounded when he implied that former President Donald Trump might not be the strongest GOP candidate for President in 2024.
McCarthy in turn blamed the media for failing to provide context and making his comments sound like something besides what they were. McCarthy had said of Trump: “Yeah, he can win that election. The question is: ‘Is he the strongest to win the election?’ I don’t know that answer.”
In the aftermath, the Speaker reportedly called Trump directly to apologize for publicly entertaining the notion that a twice-indicted, twice-impeached man currently facing a multitude of criminal charges — 37 of them federal — might not be the best face the Republicans can put forward.
When word broke that McCarthy’s backtracking included not just multiple conservative media interviews in which he reasserted that Trump was his #1, but also the call to Trump to smooth things over, former federal prosecutor and Marine Ron Filipkowski called McCarthy the “most spineless, gutless coward to ever occupy the Speaker’s Chair. Utterly worthless puppet.”
The most spineless, gutless coward to ever occupy the Speaker’s Chair. Utterly worthless puppet. https://t.co/hMPbEDDgSN
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 28, 2023
Filipkowski, who has a large Twitter following, uses the platform to point out what he sees as the hypocrisies of MAGA Republicans.
The former Republican — who named one of his sons after Ronald Reagan — told Sarasota magazine that the GOP is politically “unrecognizable to me now compared to six or seven years ago. In 2009 and ’10, I was elected president of the Republican Club of South Sarasota County–the biggest one. But I started to notice things making me uncomfortable. The Tea Party movement morphed into MAGA.”
