Posted on 02/13/2021 10:31:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An “expletive-laced” call between Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made during the Capitol riot shows the former president refused to call off rioters after McCarthy begged him to intervene.
This is a very dramatic news story reported by dozens of media outlets. But is it true?
What’s being reported is that Trump and McCarthy talked while the riot was in full swing and McCarthy begged the president to put an end to it. Trump is reported to have said to McCarthy, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”
The call was confirmed by numerous Republican representatives. But only a couple of congressmen have gone on record. Washington Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a pro-impeachment Republican, first revealed the substance of the call during a town hall meeting earlier this week.
Speaking to the President from inside the besieged Capitol, McCarthy pressed Trump to call off his supporters and engaged in a heated disagreement about who comprised the crowd. Trump’s comment about the would-be insurrectionists caring more about the election results than McCarthy did was first mentioned by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Washington state, in a town hall earlier this week, and was confirmed to CNN by Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation.
“You have to look at what he did during the insurrection to confirm where his mind was at,” Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted last month to impeach Trump, told CNN. “That line right there demonstrates to me that either he didn’t care, which is impeachable, because you cannot allow an attack on your soil, or he wanted it to happen and was OK with it, which makes me so angry.”
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No one should be surprised that Trump didn’t try and hold back his supporters. And his crack to McCarthy about the rioters caring more about the election rings true. But beyond that, the perceptions of all the actors in this little drama are colored by how they view Donald Trump. Only pro-impeachment Republican congressmen have the guts to go on record and risk angering the former president by placing that call in the worst possible light.
Of course, it’s ludicrous to think that anyone — the president or not — could have had any influence whatsoever on a mob run amok. Even if Trump had made a statement urging calm, do you really think it would have had any effect on the mob at all? The definition of a “mob” is people acting without thinking, acting instinctively. It seems highly improbable Trump could have done anything to stop the violence.
What phone number was it that he was supposed to use to call off the attack?
CNN needs a new playbook. They're a one trick pony.
the front line was Ukranian NEONAZIs brought to the
USA by Romney and Soros.
how could POTUS control Romney’s soldiers??
[this is why the Bishop leads the charge against GEOTUS]
False information planted by Pence’s slimy chief of staff who plays for the Weaver-Schmidt team.
“What phone number was it that he was supposed to use to call off the attack?”
I’m not sure. Maybe the phone number goes to Nancy Pelosi’s office. Idiots.
Yeah, that’s right after Vladimir Putin ordered him to do it.
The phone number that Twitter used to shut down the President's Twitter feed after he posted a video calling for calm and that "we are the party of law and order."
How was he supposed to do it? It wasn’t his rioters but BLM’s and Antifa; go call on the Dems.
There’s that issue of the video Trump put out on Twitter telling everyone to go home which Twitter deleted immediately. But it did exist, hard to believe he refused to do what he actually provably did do.
*yawn*
liberals keep thinking if they keep repeating the lie enough we will start to believe it, but... NOPE!
The violence was instigated by Antifag provocateurs.
Huh? He released a video THAT afternoon telling his supporters to go home. Social media deleted it.
If it was a private call, someone told CNN.
I am pretty sure it wasn’t Trump.
I guess you got my point.
No phone call, Trump had an upraised sword and was leading the troops into battle along with bugles playing the “Charge” signal. He magically transported from blocks away to the scene of the riot.
Anyone with half a brain would have recognized this.
If the report is accurate, then this "evidence" actually vindicates President Trump.
But, it will not go well, trying to prove that, because Trump supporters fell for the TRAP and followed them in.
>>> the former president refused to call off rioters after McCarthy begged him to intervene <<<
How could Trump “call off” Antifa / Proud Boys rioters? Tweeting? What proof/evidence is there that anything Trump did would cause the immediate halt to the riot? Pure speculation.
And Trump intervened faster than local or congressional security personnel.
For more comments on third hand hearsay “evidence”. 😕
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