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(34,195 posts)
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 07:20 PM Sep 2021

Pelosi's office rips McCarthy's silence over Cawthorn's 'bloodshed' comment

The office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) silence over comments made last weekend by Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a statement Tuesday. "Like he has several times this year, Minority Leader McCarthy is refusing to take action against a member of his conference who is calling for violence," a statement by Pelosi's press office said.

"McCarthy backed Representative Taylor Greene after she threatened to execute Members of Congress. He sat on his hands as his members and allies threatened the lives of police officers who responded to January's insurrection. McCarthy himself even joked about hitting Speaker Pelosi with a gavel," the statement said. "Now McCarthy is refusing to confront one of his members for calling for 'bloodshed' on behalf of the insurrectionists many House Republicans consider to be 'political prisoners.'"

The statement by the speaker's office comes after Cawthorn at an event last weekend described the Jan. 6 rioters currently held in law enforcement custody as "political hostages" and "political prisoners" and raised the threat of violence if people continue to believe that elections are "stolen."
"If our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen,
it's gonna lead to one place, and it's bloodshed," Cawthorn said.

Luke Ball, a spokesman for Cawthorn, stressed that
the "bloodshed" comment was intended as a call to restore integrity in elections ...”


https://thehill.com/homenews/house/570394-pelosi-rips-mccarthys-silence-over-cawthorns-bloodshed-comment

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Pelosi's office rips McCarthy's silence over Cawthorn's 'bloodshed' comment (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 OP
Cawthorn CLEARLY said Gov Cooper rigged vote away from Dan Forest blm Sep 2021 #1
Wheels McNazi is a traitor, again. Claire Oh Nette Sep 2021 #2
He's too stupid to realize Red Mountain Sep 2021 #3

blm

(113,010 posts)
1. Cawthorn CLEARLY said Gov Cooper rigged vote away from Dan Forest
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 07:26 PM
Sep 2021

DON’T let him squirm out of this.

He painted a target on Gov Cooper for his murderous thugs.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
2. Wheels McNazi is a traitor, again.
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 07:34 PM
Sep 2021
"If our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, it's gonna lead to one place, and it's bloodshed," Cawthorn said
.

In no way sounds like, means, or can be confused with....


the "bloodshed" comment was intended as a call to restore integrity in elections ...” according to Luke Ball, a spokesman for Cawthorn. (GQP-Nazi party, NC-11)


Wheels was quoted saying if it came to it, he'd hate to have to take up arms against Americans.


Subpoena his ass, his cellphone records, and the posts he allows his name to be associated with. He's a self-serving, lying, iproudly, willfully ignorant dumbass pretending to be a serious adult. He's the obnoxious punk 7th grade bully-coward we all knew in middle school. He's a sexual predator, and has lied about his entire resume, except his part time gig at Chik fila.

Censure. Impeach. Arrest, Charge, Try and convict this active seditionist. He is a Neo-nazi-confederate American Taliban who thinks white dangly bits mean he's important.

Fuck Cawthorn.

Red Mountain

(1,727 posts)
3. He's too stupid to realize
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 07:36 PM
Sep 2021

that if it ever came to tit for tat assassinations as the country slipped into civil war he'd be dead sooner rather than later.

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