Kevin McCarthy Whines About Hillary Clinton While Defending Donald Trump - Ring of Fire

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Kevin McCarthy is using Donald Trump's growing legal problems to go after the "real" villain, which in his mind and the minds of pretty much every conservative is Hillary Clinton. McCarthy whined to reporters that Hillary Clinton allegedly lied about spending campaign money and she only got fined and not thrown in jail. This is comparing apples to oranges, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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We've already seen Republicans this week invoke Hunter Biden, uh, as Donald Trump awaits a possible indictment, including by the way his lawyer, Alina Haba, tried to invoke Hunter Biden when asked about Donald Trump's indictment, uh, by the media. So it was only a matter of time after the Hunter Biden argument fell flat that some Republican somewhere was gonna bring up their favorite villain of all time, Hillary Clinton. And that is exactly what Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy did when asked by a CNN host about the looming Trump indictment. Here is what Kevin McCarthy was asked by CNN's uh, Manu Raju. You guys have raised a lot of concerns about the prosecutor, but what about the actual allegations here that the former president may have falsified business records to cover for hush money payments to cover up this alleged affair with an adult film actress. Do you have any concerns about that? To which Kevin McCarthy replied, remember when the DNC and Hillary Clinton paid the law firm a a million dollars and said that it was for something else? And we found out later it wasn't. And so they went through and they got investigated a million dollars they spent, and you know what? At the end of the day, they didn't get arrested. They got fined. So I look at it from this perspective. We live in America and it should be equal justice. This was personal money. This wasn't trying to hide. This was seven years ago.

Hillary Clinton, right? That that's just your shield from everything. Like, hey, it looks like Donald Trump committed financial crimes up in New York. Hillary Clinton, o okay. Hey, Donald Trump, uh, paid a, a porn actress hush monies to, to not damage his presidential ca Hillary Clinton. Uh, all right. I guess, I guess that's just the response. Now, anytime a Republican gets in trouble, they're either gonna yell, woke Hunter Biden or Hillary Clinton. I would love to actually see if any one of them could come up with a combination of all three. Like woke, hunter Biden somehow colluded with Hillary Clinton to frame Donald Trump for all the horrible things that we're seeing right now. That will be the ultimate Republican argument. Like that is the trifecta. If you can work in Hillary Hunter and woke, you're, you become top Republican at that point. Now here's the fun part, yes, Hillary Clinton and the D n C did get caught misrepresenting why they paid a law firm a million dollars. They said, we paid the law firm a million dollars on their financial disclosure, cuz they did admit like we paid a law firm a million dollars, it was for legal services. Well, it turns out you actually paid the law firm a million dollars for opposition research. So they were fined $113,000. That's, that's quite a bit of money

Considering it was a million dollars that they misrepresented, but still reported. Unlike Donald Trump in his $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels and Kevin McCarthy knows that this particular instance is comparing apples to oranges. But he had a staffer look this up, Gio, try to find a way to tie it back to the D N c, to flip the script to show that the Democrats were corrupt. This was the best thing that staffer was able to come up with. So it's Kevin McCarthy's new talking point for the moment until something better comes up, is something better gonna come up? Probably not, because this is incredibly stupid. The two events are not the same. If Donald Trump had not been running for president at the time and simply paid off Stormy Daniels, he wouldn't be in trouble.