Kevin McCarthy Roasts Gaetz’s Ethics Complaint Against Him: ‘Oh Good… Ethics Is a Good Place for Gaetz to Be’
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was pressed by a gaggle of reporters on Tuesday to address his apparent run-in with another House Republican on Capitol Hill and the new ethics complaint filed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) against him regarding the incident.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) was reportedly pushed by McCarthy while he was talking to a reporter, who documented the whole thing on Twitter – including Burchett chasing McCarthy down and yelling at him.
“Congressman Gaetz, though, is filing, submitting a complaint to the Ethics Committee over this issue. Do you have any response to Congressman Gaetz?” a reporter asked McCarthy.
“Oh good,” McCarthy said. “No. I think Ethics is a good place for Gaetz to be.”
McCarthy has long claimed that Gaetz, who led the effort to oust him as speaker last month, holds a personal grudge against him. McCarthy told CNN last week. “It’s driven by Gaetz, and it was all based upon an ethics complaint that happened in the last Congress. He would throw his country away to try to protect himself for what would come out as the truth.”
“If the Ethics Committee never does anything to Gaetz, then Gaetz was successful in stopping probably what rightfully should come to him,” McCarthy told Manu Raju at the time.
Gaetz is under investigation over allegations he “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use and accepted impermissible gifts under House rules, among other allegations,” reported the New York Times in October.
Raju asked McCarthy the next question regarding the Burchett incident, “So Burchett said that you’re the kind of guy, those were his words, as a kid would throw a rock and then go hide under his mom’s skirt, those were his exact words. What’s your response?”
“That is not who I am,” McCarthy replied.
Watch the full clip above via CNN.
