When Cheney saw the photos from Mar-a-Lago, she was stunned. She had no advance word of McCarthy’s visit and no idea he was going. Why, she asked him, was he serving as an instrument for Trump’s rehabilitation, just eight days after Trump fled Washington in deep disgrace? The visit, she said, propped up Trump at a moment when they all could have moved on. “When we look back, Kevin’s trip to Mar-a-Lago will, I think, turn out to be a key moment,” Cheney said. It would, she said, go down as one of the most shameful episodes in a period full of shameful episodes.
