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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This is almost like a “when did you stop beating your wife?” fallacy. The “riot” or supposed “insurrection” was not Trump’s to “call off.”
Wouldn’t a call by President Trump to the rioters to back off be portrayed by the media that Trump actually did have control over the rioters and was,in fact,responsible for their actions?
This is the unabridged statement that Kevin gave to his good friend, Herrera Beutler.
Honest. I wouldn't lie.
What democrat called down Antifa and BLM when they were trying to burn the Church down in DC?
What effing democrat called down Antifa and BLM when they did two billion dollars worth of damage in flyover?
NOT A DAMN ONE OF ‘EM.
If Trump said that I don’t have a problem with it.
“He said that dereliction of duty is part of the incitement charge.”
As usual, he is wrong. Dereliction of Duty would have to be part of a separate impeachment article. Incitement is incitement and not dereliction of duty.
One thing the Dems have showcased, in addition to their stupidity and total lack of ethics and character is their utter lack of knowledge of our Constitution, what it says and what it stands for.
bttt
The UniParty started that Capitol Hill “insurrection” after it became obvious to the rest of the country they had pulled off a coup on behalf of their CCP masters.
The beauty of it all at this point is that the Capitol Hill “false flag” appears to be a MAJOR Achilles heel they’re all desperately afraid of.
Its why BOTH Pelosi and Mitch went ballistic after failing to drape it around DJT’e neck yesterday.
16h
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World's Most Innocent President
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PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP.
LECTED TWICE.
2 Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
2 Fake Impeachments.
ZERO CONVICTIONS.
After the not guilty verdict yesterday, President Trump should have been awarded the Medal of Freedom.
This opening sentence (of course) makes it sound like it was Trump uttering expletives; instead it was McCarthy.
CNN sucks.
NATIONAL REVIEW, not a big Trump supporter, pointed out in yesterday's editorial that dereliction of duty was not in the impeachment charges...NATIONAL REVIEW asserted that House Democrats were in a big hurry to impeach Mr. Trump and they did not do a good job of figuring out charges...
The editorial stated that it was very hard for impeachment managers to prove that Mr. Trump wanted the Capitol riot to happen...That, according to NATIONAL REVIEW, was the problem with "incitement" charge...
So what’s your point? Nothing you said disputes anything I said.
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