Posted on 01/22/2021 10:57:45 PM PST by Helicondelta
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he does not believe former President Donald Trump incited the riot at the Capitol earlier this month, pivoting away from comments he made last week that the president bore some responsibility for the assault.
"I don't believe he provoked it if you listen to what he said at the rally," McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters.
The fresh comments from McCarthy, a staunch Trump ally, diverged from remarks by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said Tuesday that Trump "provoked" the Jan. 6 riot.
After Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives last week over the riots, McConnell has signaled his openness to convicting Trump in the upcoming Senate trial.
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This guy is all over the map.
WHO CARES WHAT THESE LIARS THINK.
They helped the fake ass ballot election.
Very weak statement.
Better:
"The transcripts of President Trump's remarks at the rally represent incontestable evidence that he did not provoke any illegal activity," McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters.
Regards,
If a Federal election is openly stolen from a presidential candidate and no one lifts a finger stop it are any Federal office holders legitimately elected?
It is also weak because his statement infers that he made his previous remarks without having heard or read the President’s speech.
Weak kneed and spineless.
What a POS McCarthy showed himself to be. He was concerning initially because he was so aligned with Ryan and Boehner. Then he played borderline American patriot for a while. Finally when push came to shove he showed he’s just as communist as any Democrat. FUKM.
That’s exactly what he and everyone else did. Now some are coming out with these statements and they look like the bunch of fools they are.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he does not believe former President Donald Trump incited the riot at the Capitol earlier this month, pivoting away from comments he made last week that the president bore some responsibility for the assault.
Too late and far too gone! Kevin McCarthy is a bonafide pansy a$$ RINO and his days are “over”! Smoke em all in the next vote and politically stab em when they run for the protection of socialist communist money/protection.
Turtle Boy...Your days are numbered!
They are feeling the blowback from us and they know their donations are drying up.
This imbecile finally figured out that there are 75 million + voters out here that know Trump never incited this so-called insurrection.
It’s too late, but that’s no surprise for the GOPe.
No! You don’t say!
As Rush has been saying for a couple of weeks now, there is a REASON the dems and the MSM have never ever played a single clip of President Trump’s speech to his supporters from Jan. 6th.
Because he never even hinted at such a thing. But, this hasn’t stopped the dems and the MSM from perpetuating the lie that he did. And they continue to do so.
The Joseph Goebbels method of, state a lie often enough and loud enough and the LIE becomes The Truth.
The dems and the Media have been using that method against President Trump and against us for more than five years.
Read later.
Kevin “the jelly fish” McCarthy’s first reaction was to promote the censure of a Republican President. Which gave validity to the 2nd impeachment farce.
These D.C. swamp rats are perfectly happy in their artificial “blue bubble.” Absolutely disgusting.
Washington D.C. looks like a foreign entity, not the seat of the U.S. Government. Both parties are globalist POS.
“... listen to what he said at the rally.” What an unorthodox approach! Not nearly as much fun as just making up the narrative
The GOP broke me.
And it took him two weeks to listen after he shot his mouth off? With "staunch" allies like this, who needs enemies?
Furthermore, antifa was breaking into the Capitol while Trump was STILL SPEAKING at his rally a mile away.
These facts are lost or ignored by $200k salaried politicians.
Congress is made up of lazy incompetent jerks, and traitors. They sit back, collect a paycheck and watch the jackets go after Trump. BTW, where is Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Ted Crus, Matt Gaetz and Jim a Jordan on this? They should be in Schumer’s McConnell’s faces on this topic.
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