There’s More to that McCarthy Story

A few days ago, I went back to that Kevin McCarthy quote from back in June 2016, when he told his leadership colleagues that he thought Vladimir Putin paid two people: Trump and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. As I noted, that came just after McCarthy and Paul Ryan had both met with the new (and current) Ukrainian Prime Minister, who had told them about Russian actions in Europe, funding right/nationalist parties, using propaganda operations to destabilize governments and so forth. But it turns out there’s more to that chain of events than I’d realized, more that makes McCarthy’s statement and Ryan’s secrecy more troubling and suspicious.