“I don’t think people should protest this, no.”
earlier this week to “Protest, take our nation back!” should he be arrested or indicted in a Manhattan hush-money investigation this coming week. “I don’t think people should protest this, no,” McCarthy told reporters during a House Republicans’ retreat in Florida, immediately adding, “And I think President Trump, if you talk to him, he doesn’t believe that either.
” He proposed that Trump was simply trying to “educate people about what’s going on” and wasn’t “talking in a harmful way.” But whatever happens, he said, “Nobody should harm one another in this… We want calmness out there.” The speaker’s remarks came a day after he worked up a lather defending Trump on Twitter, calling the Manhattan probe “an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA [Alvin Bragg] who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump.
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