'You throw crap against the wall': Former RNC head slaps down Kevin McCarthy for trying to rewrite history

On Monday morning, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele dropped the hammer on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for backing plans by Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for a proposal to expunge Donald Trump's two impeachments from the Congressional Record.

Steele's comments came on "Morning Joe" after host Mika Brzezinski shared clips of a combative McCarthy defending the plan last Friday, which in turn led the ex-GOP official to scorch the top Republican's scrambling attempt to justify spending the House's time on a purely symbolic gesture that can't erase the historical record.

Steele took particular exception to McCarthy's mention of special counsel John Durham's report that resulted in no convictions.

"You just create the confusion, you just throw crap up against the wall," Steele accused, "and everybody is going to run around and try to figure out, well, can they do that? What does it mean?"

"The reality of it is, you're not -- you can't expunge the impeachment," he exclaimed. "Yeah, you can take it out of the official Congressional Record, but it doesn't change history, it doesn't change what happened. It doesn't change the fact that you and a lot of Republicans are on the record during that time talking about the very thing you said never happened and didn't exist and they weren't saying it didn't happen and it didn't exist."

"So the reality of it is, this is just more confusion," he continued. "Again, for me, it just boils down to, how damn dumb and desperate do you have to be to continue to find a way to keep Donald Trump's behind out of trouble as he keeps putting himself in trouble?"

"I mean, look, all the stuff that we're talking about, Mika, this stuff that Trump did -- nobody else but him. Yet, these folks are just --- they're beside themselves, they bend themselves backward and put their heads in very dark places to protect this man. It's just astounding to me, he could care less about Kevin," he added.

Watch the segment below or at this link.

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