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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La. / PHOTO: AP ( Headline USA ) House Minority Whip Steve Scalise , R-La., met privately with Rep. Matt Gaetz , R-Fla., this week to discuss leaked recordings in which Scalise and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy , R-Calif., could be heard bashing former President Donald Trump and Republican congressmen who supported him, Gaetz included.
The private sitdown on Wednesday followed scathing rebukes from Gaetz, who blasted Scalise and McCarthy as “weak” leaders.
“I said: ‘I’m sorry if this caused you problems,’” Scalise told Politico . “I still haven’t been able to get all the details of what those accusations were, but I was being told things, and I know members were getting death threats and I was just very sensitive to that.”
In the recordings, Scalise said Gaetz’s actions after the Jan. 6 Capitol protests were “potentially illegal.”
Gaetz has pressed Scalise to either issue a retraction of this statement or a clarification, but Scalise has not yet elaborated on his views about Jan. 6 and whether they’ve changed.
“There were a lot of things that we were being told,” Scalise said.“Some turned out to be accurate, some not. In his case, we haven’t gotten the details […]
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