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By Nicholas Fandos
On the eve of a verdict in Donald J’s Senate trial. Trump, one of the 10 Republicans who voted to accuse him, showed Friday night that the house’s most sensible Republican, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, had told him that the former president had sided with the crowd on a phone call while the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill was taking place.
One Friday night, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington Republican, recounted a phone call made to him by McCarthy of California, the minority leader, in which Trump reportedly sided with the troublemakers and told the House’s most sensible Republican that the crowd members who broke into the Capitol were reportedly “more disappointed than you for the election. “
He begged witnesses to go ahead and share the percentage of what they knew about Trump while the attack was occurring.
“To the patriots who were next to the former president those talks, or even the former vice president: if you have anything to get up here, this would be the time,” Herrera Beutler said in the statement.
His account of the call between McCarthy and Trump, first reported through CNN, addressed a factor in the demand for political judgment: what Trump did, what he did and said privately while the Capitol was overrun.
Herrera Beutler said McCarthy had forwarded the main points of his phone call with Trump, been speaking it publicly for weeks, added at a virtual city corridor meeting Monday with voters, and recounted his verbal exchange in Friday’s statement.
A Spokesman for McCarthy did not respond to a request for comment and spokespersons for the House indictment did not respond to a request for comment.
The Republican leader’s reaction to Trump in the weeks following the Capitol attack fluctuated: on the day of the house’s political trial vote, he said Trump had some duty for the attack because he denounced the crowd, however. Since then he has backed down and tried to settle his relationship with the former president.
According to Herrera Beutler’s account, McCarthy frantically called Trump on January 6 when the Capitol besaned thousands of pro-Trump supporters seeking to prevent Congress from counting Electoral College votes that would verify his loss.
She had asked Him to “publicly and vigorously cancel the mutiny. “
Trump responded by saying that the antifa, not his supporters, was responsible. When McCarthy said that wasn’t true, the former president got dry out.
“Well, Kevin, I think those other people are more disappointed than you are with the election,” He said, according to Herrera Beutler’s account of what McCarthy told him.
A few hours after the attack began, Trump tweeted a video asking those who were looting the Capitol to leave: “Go home. We love you. You’re very special,” he says.
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