Kevin McCarthy dismissed Liz Cheney warning before January 6, book says
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6FTM3)
Adam Kinzinger, another anti-Trump Republican, details exchange - and shoulder checks' from McCarthy - in new memoir
When Liz Cheney warned fellow Republicans five days before January 6 of a dark day" to come if they indulged in the fantasy" that they could overturn Donald Trump's defeat by Joe Biden, the then House GOP leader, Kevin McCarthy, swiftly slapped her down.
After Liz spoke," the former Wyoming representative's fellow anti-Trumper Adam Kinzinger writes in a new book, McCarthy immediately told everyone who was listening, I just want to be clear: Liz doesn't speak for the conference. She speaks for herself.'"
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