CNN Unearths Audio Of Kevin McCarthy Saying Trump Admitted Responsibility For Riot
Source: Huffington Post
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said days after the U.S. Capitol riot that then-President Donald Trump had admitted to him that he bore some responsibility for the violence that unfurled among his supporters on Jan. 6 last year.
I say he has responsibility. He told me personally that he does have some responsibility. I think a lot of people do, McCarthy said in a Jan. 12 interview with Bakersfield, California, radio station KERN that CNNs K-File unearthed and released on Friday.
Listen to the audio here:
Link to tweet
McCarthy reportedly made a similar claim about Trump taking responsibility for the riot in a Jan. 11 call to Republican lawmakers, per Reuters.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-jan-6-confession_n_61e28c3ee4b01f707da37e60
KPN
(15,643 posts)evening news programs across the US a time or two over the next week. And then repeatedly during the run-up to November elections.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)they all are on all the evil being revealed day by day on the attempted coup..and all in lockstep.
Cha
(297,184 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)That, and I learned to never say anything with any degree of certainty - especially to my wife. Well, she's now my ex-wife, but saying that you are sure of anything will always come back to bite you in the ass when dealing with her. I always would start off saying almost everything I said to her with "I don't know? maybe...." or "I think that...." or when asked about my opinion on something to just not give an opinion because it would always be wrong.
Not following that protocol would end up in her screaming and throwing stuff at me and her telling our kids how much she hated me and that she wanted a divorce. I finally took her up on that divorce and I couldn't be happier.
keithbvadu2
(36,785 posts)Henry Hyde said that his adultery at age 41 was a youthful indiscretion.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)lovingly cupping his balls.
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)XacerbatedDem
(511 posts)KS Toronado
(17,214 posts)OK Kevin who do you think these other people are? Cat got your tongue?
ShazzieB
(16,386 posts)A very large orange cat whose name rhymes with dump, lump, rump, and chump.
highplainsdem
(48,974 posts)And the Sunday morning talk shows...
Raven123
(4,830 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Hey Kevin, your underwear is showing.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)McCarthy has been corrupted or blackmailed.
How do I know? Because in the first couple days after the insurrection McCarthy was ready to impeach him.
McCarthy was ready to convict him. So what exactly turned him around?
Hmmmm....?
ShazzieB
(16,386 posts)I don't know what FailedCoupGuy said to him down there, but he came back singing a completely different tune.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)that make up most of the Republican base.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)To walk off the side of the planet and tumble forever into the abyss.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)GB_RN
(2,350 posts)And was afraid it would pop up, which explains his refusal to testify before the 1/6 Committee: If he'd testified, and then the video surfaced, he'd be busted for perjury. And he certainly couldn't tell the truth with people like Marjory Traitor Gangrene running around who'd be (almost literally) gunning for him.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)McCarthy will take that memory to his grave so of course he is lying when he says he doesn't remember.
Slammer
(714 posts)Too bad you can't use hearsay in court proceedings.
But you can certainly bring it up in congressional investigations.
keithbvadu2
(36,785 posts)Theres two people I think Putin pays: [California Republican Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump, McCarthy said, according to the report.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/333951-majority-leader-mccarthy-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump
Now McCarthy is a converted rabid Trump sycophant like Lindsey G and Rafael Cruz.