Paging Sigmund Freud: STAT! Sick Steve Schmidt needs help!
Friday afternoon on his friend Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC shot Deadline: White House, the former McCain presidential campaign head-turned-Trump-hating liberal and co-found of the disgraced Lincoln Project indulged a sick fantasy about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Describing the House GOP leader as "among the most villainous figures that have been in the history of the American republic," sick Schmidt fantasized McCarthy handcuffed, and locked in a basement!
Schmidt was reacting to McCarthy's relationship with former President Trump in the past year (starting with the events of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol) when he insisted that the California Republican had "become...this villanious figure that is among the most villainous figures that have been in the history of the American republic" and "played a — a profoundly important role over this last year through the lying, through the cover-up, of poisoning faith and belief in democracy."
Adding that McCarthy's demeanor is that of a child, Schmidt dropped his analogy:
We have Kevin McCarthy at the center of this. He's always been at the center of it, continues to be at the center of it. And — and the House should use every power that it has at its discretion, including an inherent contempt power, that could see the Sergeant-at-Arms handcuff and detain Kevin McCarthy in a locked basement office until he wishes to testify.
There is no matter before the country that's more serious than this one and being Minority Leader, being the leader of Republicans, does not immunize you either from your duty or to complying with lawful subpoenas. You certainly don't have the right because of that political title to obstruct an investigation into a murderous investigation and attack on the processes of electing and inaugurating the president of the United States.
While he's talking about basement offices in the Congress, the idea of imprisoning someone inside a basement is nothing short of skin-crawlingly creepy and borderline that of some sick BDSM fantasy. And that goes for whatever you think of McCarthy's performance and politics.
Of course, Wallace and the rest of the panelists didn't bat an eye.
PS: Move over, Benedict Arnold and Tokyo Rose, and make room for Kevin McCarthy, who in Schmidt's twisted view is "among the most villainous figures that have been in the history of the American republic." Hyperbole much?
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Here's the transcript.
MSNBC's Deadline White House
01/14/22
4:12 pm EasternSTEVE SCHMIDT: Kevin McCarthy has become — and this is an extraordinary thing for me say personally because I met Kevin McCarthy before he was a member of Congress, when he was the minority leader in the California legislature. As you know, Nicolle, Sacramento is a small town and what Kevin McCarthy has become is this villanious figure that is among the most villainous figures that have been in the history of the American republic.
He has played a — a profoundly important role over this last year through the lying, through the cover-up, of poisoning faith and belief in democracy. And one of the things about Kevin McCarthy, if you watch him operate, is that he's very childlike in that he lives entirely in the moment. He's not thinking about the ramifications for the next conversation based on what he's saying in the current, or in the last. He's just trying to survive. He's trying to survive in the moment.
So in that moment, Kevin McCarthy was reading the situation. He understood how egregious this was. And in the end, before he gets down to Mar-a-Lago, which was fundamentally about securing the financing pipeline for the House Republicans in the 2020 midterms — that's what that meeting was substantially about. We have Kevin McCarthy at the center of this. He's always been at the center of it, continues to be at the center of it. And — and the House should use every power that it has at its discretion, including an inherent contempt power, that could see the Sergeant-at-Arms handcuff and detain Kevin McCarthy in a locked basement office until he wishes to testify.
There is no matter before the country that's more serious than this one and being Minority Leader, being the leader of Republicans, does not immunize you either from your duty or to complying with lawful subpoenas. You certainly don't have the right because of that political title to obstruct an investigation into a murderous investigation and attack on the processes of electing and inaugurating the president of the United States.
