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Kevin McCarthy fact-checked on American history in brutal community note
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Representative Kevin McCarthy was fact-checked about American history after saying the United States "never asked for land" after winning wars in a social media post.
In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom," McCarthy, the Republican who was ousted as speaker of the House last month, posted to X, formerly Twitter, Sunday night.
Historian Joshua Zeitz wrote on X, "This guy represents California in Congress — one of 9 current states whose territory the US won in part or whole during the Mexican War of 1848."
"These guys spent so much time erasing American history that they forgot to read it," wrote BET host Marc Lamont Hill.
"I haven't talked about him much since he became irrelevant but in case you forgot, Kevin McCarthy is still a blathering idiot who knows nothing of our nation's history and loves nothing more than the sound of his own voice," Representative Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat, posted on X.
Kevin McCarthy is showing here that he's either a liar or an idiot, and either way, people shouldn't be listening to a word he has to say," high school teacher Matt Grover wrote.
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