Kevin McCarthy Asked About His Deleted Soros Tweet After Condemning Ilhan Omar on Fox News
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had to answer for old charges of anti-semitism on Wednesday as he and other Republicans continue railing against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her controversial comments.
In an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, McCarthy argued that Omar’s recent apology is not enough, and she ought to be pulled from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for saying Republican support for Israel is rooted in their financial backing by pro-Israeli groups. As McCarthy slammed Congressional Democrats for not taking further action against Omar, Harris brought up an old, deleted tweet of McCarthy’s that’s been getting a lot of renewed attention amid the Omar scandal.
Back in 2018, McCarthy raised eyebrows when he accused three Jewish Democrat megadonors – George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, and Tom Steyer – of trying to “buy” the midterm elections.
That message was posted while Steyer and Soros were being targeted by an attempted mail bombing campaign against President Trump‘s political enemies, and Steyer accused McCarthy at the time of playing up the anti-Semitic trope that rich Jews secretly control the world.
The tweet was deleted the day after it was posted, but screenshots have drawn interest among political observers due to parallels in the case of Omar. When Faulkner asked McCarthy to explain his tweet, he insisted that his point “had nothing to do with faith.”
“That was about Republicans versus Democrats,” McCarthy argued. “All I was pointing out was money that Republicans and Democrats were spending to defeat one another…It had nothing to do with faith, it had to do with party and the campaign.”
Watch above, via Fox News.
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