Fox News’ Howard Kurtz pushed back on former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for seeming to suggest the current president should “meddle with the justice system” in former President Donald Trump’s favor by postponing his hush money trial until after the November elections.
On Sunday’s MediaBuzz, Kurtz read a statement Joe Biden gave about Trump’s legal problems:
His lack of ethics has nothing to do with me. I have not once talked to anyone in my administration about Trump’s legal problems.
“What proof do you have to the contrary?” Kurtz asked McCarthy.
“Isn’t it come out before, too, where he even in his own words proves that’s not true?” McCarthy answered. “When he was complaining to — in his staff about Trump and the legal issues?”
Kurtz said, “Wait, isn’t there a difference between complaining privately to your own staff and trying to meddle with the levers of justice?”
MCCARTHY: I think fairness is a word that’s probably a …