Question

.Does Senator McCarthy cite or mention any evidence he has that proves the 205 government employees on his list are actually communists? What does that tell you?

Answer 1

Answer:

No, he did not cite any evidence. It meant that he lacked credibility.

Explanation:

Joseph McCarthy heated up the polity in his speech at the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling in 1950. During his speech, McCarthy waved a list in front of the audience telling them that, the list has the names of 205 government officials who were working in the Unites States Department, but were members of communist parties. In later speeches he gave varying figures as the number of U.S workers who were communists. In so doing McCarthy was igniting tension among the citizens.

His inconsistency in the number of figures and his inability to provide evidence were glaring proof that his information was not to be trusted. His schemes were later discovered by the people when he accused the Army of harboring communists and this resulted in his being condemned by the U.S Senate.