Posted on 06/09/2022 8:08:29 PM PDT by DoodleBob
As the Jan. 6 select committee prepares to unveil some of the findings of its investigation into the riot at the Capitol by those who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday offered his spin on who was to blame for the attack: everyone.
During a news conference on Capitol Hill, McCarthy was asked whether he still agreed with his own public and private comments following the Jan. 6 riot that former President Donald Trump bore some of the responsibility for the violence.
“Look, I’ve answered that many times,” McCarthy responded. “I thought everybody in the country [bore] some responsibility based on what has been going on — the riots in the streets, the others." (He has made similar claims in the past.)
The attack itself was committed by a mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters, who stormed the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College. So far, 306 of the 860 charged in connection with the riot have pleaded guilty. A number of Capitol Police officers were assaulted during attack, which followed Trump holding a nearby rally and urging his fans to “fight like hell” on behalf of his false claim that the election was stolen.
McCarthy’s comment was an apparent reference to the protests that gripped the country following the police killings of Black Americans in several cities in 2020. The violence that occurred in those demonstrations has provided Republicans with a line of argument to suggest that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was simply part of a larger pattern.
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Bush League
McCarthy-Lunts strikes, again.
OK, it was me. Sorry.
Everybody? Really? Even those of us who voted legally and correctly and expected them to be counted that way?
Assistant Democrat, assistant election thief.
Now we’re all guilty.
FOAD.
500 Antifa/BLM riots in 2020.
GFY asshat.
I guess that’s why they’re turning America into a gulag.
Bless his heart
Feckless idiot. Grow some testicles jackass. The stupid party strikes again, unwilling to take a stand against the evil prty. What wimps.
Kevin has Pink Cotton Candy for a heart, while Liz has a heart as hard and black as unmined coal.
Somebody find McCarthy’s spine.
Nope.
I have an iron-clad alibi.
Chuck Schumer: ‘Okay, can we get back to murdering one of the Supreme Court Justices.’
Send Me Men.
Seems like Chuck can do anything.
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Or a hundred day old turd ripening in the Arizona sun.
Nobody we know was there that day. Kevin can write this in his book entitled Stupid Things I Shouldn’t Have Ever Said.
Democrats like you sure are.
Speak for yourself.
Not me.
And FWIW, it was no attack.
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