Kinzinger on McCarthy UKR remarks: ‘You’re giving aid & comfort to the enemy

Source: The Hill | October 20, 2022 | Julia Shapero

Kinzinger on McCarthy Ukraine remarks: ‘You’re giving aid and comfort to the enemy, intentionally or unintentionally’

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on Wednesday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) recent remarks suggesting a GOP majority would limit Ukrainian aid are “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”

“Maybe in his mind, he actually did believe that all he was saying is, ‘Hey, we want to have some oversight in this,’” Kinzinger said on CNN on Wednesday night. “But what he did …. You’re giving aid and comfort to the enemy, intentionally or unintentionally.”

Kinzinger suggested that McCarthy may be trying to appease the more conservative members of the party in an effort to build support for a bid for House speaker after the midterm elections.

“His whole point in going out and giving that interview is to try to assuage those folks, to try to assuage the intense kind of members of the party that he knows he’s going to need to be speaker,” he added.

McCarthy warned in an interview published on Tuesday that if the Republican Party retakes the House in November’s elections, they will not write a “blank check” to Ukraine.

“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” McCarthy said. “They just won’t do it.”

He doubled down on his remarks on Wednesday, saying he was amazed they “somehow made news.”

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