he purged liz cheney, the only republican house leader who saw the insurrection for what it was. and let a thousand crazy-conspiracy flowers bloom from what used to be the fringe of his party but is now the face of it. matt gaetz is now retweeting a new theory being peddled on fox news that fbi operatives organized and participated in the attack. so, of course, did marjorie taylor greene. congressman paul gosar is claiming federal officials incited it and says that a qanon follower killed in the attack was executed by law enforcement. their leader, kevin mccarthy, tolerates it all. and sets the example. he's set the bar pretty high there. here's what he said about president biden at the summit in geneva. and, spoiler alert, it is, also, a lie. and he knows it. quoting from a portion of mccarthy's statement yesterday, he said president biden should have used today's summit to stand up for our national interests. and send a message to the world, the united states will hold russia accountable for its long list of transgressions. unfortunately, president biden gave vladimir putin a pass.