Link , Link , Link , [Cheney went on to slam McCarthy for kissing up to Trump. In mid-January, McCarthy said, “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters.” Just a couple of weeks later he changed his tune. “The idea that a few weeks after he did that, the leader of the Republicans in the House would be at Mar-a-Lago, essentially, you know, pleading with him to to somehow come back into the fold, or whatever it was he was doing, to me was inexcusable.”]