McCarthy Visited ‘Depressed’ Trump After Jan. 6 Because He Wasn’t ‘Eating,’ Liz Cheney Says

Liz Cheney claims in her upcoming book that former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told her the reason he secretly scurried down to Mar-a-Lago to visit Donald Trump just three weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection is the ex-president was “depressed” and “not eating.”

In excerpts of Oath and Honor first published by CNN, Cheney details what she calls the “cowardice” of the Trump-era Republican Party, describing her former congressional colleagues as “enablers and collaborators” who were “willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty” to Trump after the 2020 election.

Cheney, a former Wyoming congresswoman who was drummed out of GOP leadership and eventually the House over her criticism of Trump’s election lies, specifically accuses McCarthy of charting a “craven” path by embracing the twice-impeached ex-president.

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