'It was personal': McCarthy trashes Matt Gaetz in farewell address

After becoming the first House Speaker in history to be voted out of the position by a vote of Congress, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave a farewell address to reporters on Tuesday.

And on his way out the door, McCarthy took a shot at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the far-right hardliner who called the motion to remove him in the first place.

"I don't think [the vote] says [anything] about the Republican Party; I think it says something about some people who are not a conservative," said McCarthy. "I mean, if you were conservative and you only had one entity making the battle and you vote against securing the border, you vote against cutting funding, this wasteful spending, and then you partner with all the Democrats — now you'll phrase it all the other different ways, that's not a conservative."

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"Look, you all know Matt Gaetz," McCarthy continued. "You know it was personal. It had nothing to do about spending. It had nothing to do about — everything he accused somebody of, he was doing. It all was about getting attention from you. I mean, we're getting email fundraisers from him as he's doing it. 'Join in quickly!' That's not governing. That's not becoming of a member of Congress."

Gaetz's real motivation, McCarthy suggested, is retaliation for the ethics investigation into allegations he engaged in sexual misconduct, drug use, bribery, and campaign finance violations.

"Regardless of what you think, I've seen the texts, it was all about his ethics," said McCarthy. "But that's all right."

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