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Friday, May 1, 2026

Kevin McCarthy Doesn’t Want Pro-Trump Protests? Give Me A Break - The Nation

On Sunday, I wrote: “Trump Wants More Violence. That’s Fine With Kevin McCarthy.” But today, Beltway reporters tell us the GOP House speaker absolutely, positively doesn’t want violence. He doesn’t even want Trump supporters to protest his possibly impending indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

My bad.

Kidding. Sure, the spineless SINO—Speaker in name only, as I like to call him, since he’s utterly beholden to the likes of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and the House Wing Nut Caucus—held a press conference before the House GOP’s annual ideological orgy, or “retreat,” this year in Orlando, Fla., where he discouraged violence, and even protest. “I don’t think people should protest this, no,” he said about Bragg’s reported plans to indict Trump on charges related to the hush money he paid porn star Stormy Daniels.

NBC News, noting that McCarthy’s comments came in response to a question from its reporter, reported that McCarthy “urged calm.”

“I don’t think people should protest this, no. And I think President Trump, if you talk to him, he doesn’t believe that, either,” McCarthy said. “Nobody should harm one another.… We want calmness out there.”

Give me a break, people. To their credit, the NBC reporters opened their story noting that Trump actually said, “Protest, take our nation back!” So I...



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