House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed CNN on June 12 as he was being pressed about the indictment against former President Donald Trump over his handing of classified documents.
“The idea of equal justice is not playing out here,” McCarthy told a group of reporters at Capitol Hill, referring to how Trump and President Joe Biden were treated differently over their retention of government records.
“You’re with CNN, right?” McCarthy asked the reporter questioning him.
When the reporter confirmed that she was, McCarthy questioned why the network had hired Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director who was fired in March 2019 after a Justice Department internal review found that he had “made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor—including under oath—on multiple occasions.”…