Matt Gaetz Files Ethics Complaint Against Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy For Sucker Punching Rep. Tim Burchett

It’s time to kick Kevin McCarthy to the curb. I was convinced that he had to be removed from the Speakership and now I am equally convinced that he must be tossed out of Congress after he sucker punched Rep Tim Burchett in the kidney. There is no excuse for that. Rep Matt Gaetz has now filed an ethics complaint against McCarthy. McCarthy is very bitter about being fired for being a RINO and he has been lashing out against the eight Republicans that knocked him out of his position.

Not so coincidentally, Burchett is one of the gang of eight that led to McCarthy’s removal. Matt Gaetz is another and McCarthy has called Gaetz out, claiming he is not a conservative. Satan claimed that Jesus was not really the Savior. I put Satan and McCarthy in the same class. The eight who voted against McCarthy are Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane of Arizona, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, and Matt Rosendale of Montana.

Matt Gaetz and Nancy Mace, who happens to represent my district both revealed that McCarthy worked behind the scenes to sabotage every Republican who ran for Speaker, including the extremely popular Jim Jordan. That ended up leading McCarthy to elbow Burchett in the kidney. NPR reporter Claudia Grisales corroborated Burchett’s account of what happened.

Grisales said:

“Speaker McCarthy walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke, it was not.”

Investigative journalist Nick Sortor reports,

JUST IN: @MattGaetzhas officially filed an ethics complaint against Kevin McCarthy after the former Speaker ASSAULTED Rep. Tim Burchett today at the US Capitol

According to Burchett, the attack was a “sucker punch” and “a clean shot to the kidney.”

McCarthy is absolutely PATHETIC. So thankful the Gaetz Eight stripped him of his power.

???? JUST IN: @MattGaetz has officially filed an ethics complaint against Kevin McCarthy after the former Speaker ASSAULTED Rep. Tim Burchett today at the US Capitol

According to Burchett, the attack was a “sucker punch” and “a clean shot to the kidney.”

McCarthy is absolutely… pic.twitter.com/clgDnxre9h

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 14, 2023

The complaint begins:

“It has come to my attention that this morning, November 14, 2023, following a meeting of the House Republican Conference, Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) assaulted Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) in the hallways of Capitol complex. This assault was witnessed by multiple people, including Claudia [Grisales] of NPR, who was interviewing Rep. Burchett at the time.”

“Needless to say, this incident deserves immediate and swift investigation by the Ethics Committee. This Congress has seen a substantial increase in breaches of decorum unlike anything we have seen since the pre-Civil War era. I myself have been a victim of outrageous conduct on the House floor as well, but nothing like an open and public assault on a Member, committed by another Member. The rot starts at the top.”

From The Hill

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) filed a formal ethics complaint against former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) accused the ex-House leader of elbowing him in a hallway Tuesday.

“This incident deserves immediate and swift investigation by the Ethics committee,” Gaetz wrote in a letter to House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.) and ranking member Susan Wild (D-Pa.).

McCarthy later told reporters the interaction was not deliberate, and that he was simply moving past Burchett in a small hallway.

“I guess our elbows hit as I walked by,” McCarthy later told reporters, including CNN. “If I would hit somebody, they would I know hit them.”

Gaetz took Burchett’s side.

“I myself have been a victim of outrageous conduct on the House floor as well,” Gaetz wrote, an apparent reference to when House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) lunged at Gaetz during the 15-ballot election of McCarthy as Speaker in January, “but nothing like an open and public assault on a Member, committed by another Member. The rot starts at the top.”