Liz Cheney calls McCarthy ‘pathetic’ for saying he’d serve in Trump administration

Former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney called Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) “sad” and “pathetic” for his willingness to serve in a second Trump administration.

McCarthy told CBS News Sunday Morning, “In the right position, look, if I’m the best person for the job, yes,” when asked if he would consider serving in former President Donald Trump’s Cabinet should he win the 2024 election.

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Cheney, who has spent the last few weeks criticizing Trump and Republicans in Congress for the United States “sleepwalking into a dictatorship,” said she found the former House speaker’s remarks disappointing.

“I can’t explain it,” she said in an interview with MSNBC on Monday. “It’s pathetic. There’s sort of an element of — it doesn’t really matter what Donald Trump has done to the country, what Donald Trump has done to the Congress, Donald Trump has done to Kevin McCarthy….”

She added that she felt like McCarthy was “going back for more.”

“I think it’s sad, but I also think history’s going to show that Kevin’s unwillingness to do the right thing, and you know, sort of each time that decision came, did real damage,” the former congresswoman said.

McCarthy announced last week that he would leave Congress at the end of the year but did not reveal specifics on what his next plans would be. However, he said he planned to serve America in “new ways” and that “my work is only getting started.”

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McCarthy was ousted from the speakership in October by eight Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), several of whom are among Trump’s most loyal GOP allies in the House.

The former House speaker said he would support Trump in the 2024 election despite a rocky relationship with the former president — largely stemming from his refusal for a time to publicly support Trump’s bid for a second term in order to appeal to neutral and centrist GOP donors who have soured on Trump.