Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) drew widespread criticism for visiting Mar-a-Lago three weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said his excuse for making the trip was "pathetic."
According to Liz Cheney's new book, "Oath and Honor," the recently ousted House speaker told her that he trekked to Trump's private residence on Jan. 28, 2021, because his aides were worried that he was depressed and had purportedly stopped eating.
"Kevin McCarthy justifying his trip to Mar-a-Lago by saying three words that nobody has ever said about Donald Trump: He's not eating," the "Morning Joe" host said. "Now all I can say is this: If Kevin McCarthy's job was to go down to Mar-a-Lago to get Donald eating again, well, he did a hell of a job. Because that ain't been a problem since, wasn't really a problem before. You know, maybe if he said, 'I've got to go down to Mar-a-Lago because Donald is cheating on his wind sprints we'd believe that. But he's not eating, I don't believe it."
"How comforting that when he left, the last vision we saw was the ailing Donald lying in the that bed with an empty bucket of KFC over his head," Scarborough added.
"On his tummy," co-host Mika Brzezinski offered. "That's pathetic."
"Come on – 'he's not eating,'" Scarborough said. "You want to go to Mar-a-Lago that badly. Come on, Kevin, make a better excuse than that."
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