GOP Rep. Proves He’s The Simone Biles Of ‘Verbal Gymnastics’ | EUROtoday

They don’t give out medals for verbal gymnastics, but when they did, one Republican congressman may need taken the gold primarily based on his CNN interview on Wednesday.

Amazingly, Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) tried guilty the present House speaker debacle on Democrats, although Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz masterminded the hassle to take away Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the job.

In the method, he engaged in what anchor Brianna Keilar known as “verbal gymnastics” in an try and do what members of his celebration have finished just lately: blame the other celebration for a scenario began and exacerbated by his Republican colleagues.

“The Democrats knew what they were doing when they put up 208 votes to take him out of the speakership, and that’s what created the current situation,” stated Scott, who briefly made a run at speaker himself.

Keilar famous, “They didn’t take him out of the speakership. [The Republicans] are the majority.”

“Just factually speaking, there were only eight Republicans and there were 208 Democrats,” Scott stated, whereas ignoring the vote to take away McCarthy got here on the behest of these eight Republicans.

Keilar pressed him: “But sir, who’s in the majority?”

“Well, the Democrats were the majority of that vote,” he stated, ignoring her level that Republicans at the moment have a slim majority of the House.

“No,” Keilar stated. “Who’s in the majority in the House of Representatives?”

“The Republicans are in the majority,” Scott conceded. “But Democrats provided the majority of the votes to take Kevin McCarthy out of the speakership.”

Keilar identified that “the Republicans provided the key votes” and added, “They’re in the majority. They can provide enough votes, obviously, to put a Republican speaker in place.”

Scott doubled down, noting that Democrats offered 96% of the votes to take away McCarthy, at which level Keilar referred to what he was saying as “some interesting verbal gymnastics.”

He wasn’t completely satisfied to be known as out.

“What do you mean? I’m just calling out the facts,” Scott stated, earlier than as soon as once more noting the massive variety of Democratic votes to take away McCarthy.

“I’m talking about how it works,” Keliar defined to the congressman, earlier than providing a civics lesson. “And that is, the majority in the House of Representatives ― your party ― is responsible for electing the speaker, not the Democrats.”

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Although Scott would be the Simone Biles of verbal gymnastics, his feedback didn’t get a lot help from the judges on X, previously often known as Twitter — together with former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, who chastised Scott for not taking accountability for the speakership debacle.