![]() ![]() “While talking to after the GOP conference meeting, walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. McCarthy conceded he may have bumped into Burchett, but the NPR reporter backed up Burchett’s account. In audio released by NPR, Burchett can be heard saying "Why'd you elbow me in the back, Kevin? Hey Kevin, you got any guts?” McCarthy can be heard denying the claim and laughing. “If I hit someone, they would know about it,” he added, mocking Burchett for claiming he was in pain. “I didn’t even know what he was talking about,” McCarthy told CNN. He said there was no bad blood over the vote to remove him from the speakership. He’s the type of guy that when you’re a kid would throw a rock over the fence and run home and hide behind his mama’s skirt.”īurchett and Grisales said McCarthy denied it at the time and he later denied elbowing Burchett to other members of the press. He’s a, as I stated many times, he’s a bully with $17 million and a security detail. “I turned back and there was Kevin,” Burchett told CNN. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., threatened to fight Teamsters President Sean O’Brien Elsewhere on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Sen.Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who led the far-right charge to remove McCarthy, filed an ethics complaint against the former speaker alleging he “assaulted” Burchett and called for an “immediate and swift investigation” ![]() McCarthy conceded he may have bumped into Burchett, but the NPR reporter backed up Burchett’s account.Burchett was talking to NPR reporter Claudia Grisales on Tuesday morning when he says he “got elbowed in the back and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys”.Tim Burchett accused former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the kidneys intentionally in retaliation for the Tennessee Republican's vote last month to oust McCarthy ![]()
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