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What Blood Oath Did Kevin McCarthy Take?

"  In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics. Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Mr. Trump to resign immediately: “I’ve had it with this guy,” he told a group of Republican leaders." This is from the NYT. I've heard this song and dance many times before.  And the upshot of it they would do something about it. Now in spite of the existence of tapes regarding these conversations for the most part with very few exceptions Republicans voted against any investigation by Congress of the who, what, when, why and where the riot came from and what would be gained by pushing the lies and legally dismissed allegations of fraud. Greene, Gaetz, Brooks, Boebert, Cawthorn and several others who seem to have little interested in govern...