Posted on 02/13/2021 7:28:44 AM PST by L.A.Justice
Washington (CNN)
In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.
"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy.
McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump's supporters and begged Trump to call them off.
Trump's comment set off what Republican lawmakers familiar with the call described as a shouting match between the two men. A furious McCarthy told the then-President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, "Who the f--k do you think you are talking to?" according to a Republican lawmaker familiar with the call.
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McCarthy is as bad as Ryan.
Wasn't he giving a speech at the time? How is this possible?
Not the provocateurs. And if the “riot” had not ceased immediately, the narrative would have been “ He’s lost his base.”
McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump’s supporters
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So where does Kevin think his votes for re-election are going to come from?
The rioters?
Not enough Kevin; there were only a few hundred rioters.
Maybe, as Kevin’s district turns more brown, he can change parties to Dem.
Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by **McCarthy**.
TRUST light not on yet
This CNN idiocy makes a lot of sense since McCarthy showed up at Mar A Lago on 1/28/2021... Shocking, a Congresswoman from WA... Maybe Lady Herrera should pay a lil more attention to Antifa in her state.
CNN logic:
I’m upset about the blatant stealing of the election, therefore I’m an insurrectionist.
XiNN Fake News
So when was this so called conversation to have taken place? PDJT was speaking at a podium in Lafayette Park during the first hour of the Capitol incursion so it strains credulity for this to be true. CNN is not a news organization and should be ignored.
If there is no name attached to the quote and it is CNN you can be sure they just made it up.
CNN often likes to refer to "unnamed sources"...Not this time...Congresswoman from Washington confirmed the details...
https://twitter.com/herrerabeutler?lang=en
Congresswoman asked "patriots" who were near President Trump, while he was speaking with Congressman McCarthy, to speak out...
CNN is not misrepresenting what Congresswoman is saying...
I do understand why Mr. Trump would refuse to say anything about this conversation at this time...His lawyers told him to keep quiet...
About Congressman McCarthy...This story is not going away any time soon just because he will not make further comments about the phone call...
And remember, Trump offered 10,000 national guard troops, but the Rat Powers that be declined. Very understandable if he did say it, because Trump gave them the opportunity to keep it safe.
How could Trump “call them off”? They were acting on their own. Isn’t congress in charge of security at the capitol? This is a crock.
NVFAR...
Stealing an election like they did is very serious. The fact that they call the protest, even the peaceful one, “insurrection” shows they know it, and they’re guilty as hell of stealing it.
Well I guess that proves.... nothing
A good point...Maybe the Trump defense team should mention those points...
I don't think that those thugs who attacked police officers really cared about what Mr. Trump had to say... My opinion...Most of those thugs were Antifa...I do believe that some Trump supporters did engage in violence with those antifa types...
All you need to know is, its from CNN.
It never happened. Its the usual made up sh*t from fake news CNN.
And of course L.A. Justice is hard at work as usual pushing this fake news garbage on FR as if its real news.
Yep.
More hearsay evidence?
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