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Trump Refused to Call Off Capitol Rioters During Tense Call With Kevin McCarthy
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said during the call, according to CNNJ. Clara Chan | February 12, 2021 @ 5:07 PM Last Updated: February 12, 2021 @ 5:09 PM
Then-President Trump and Rep. Kevin McCarthy pictured together outside of the Oval Office in April 2020. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Then-President Donald Trump refused to call off the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 during a heated call with House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, CNN reported on Friday.
According to lawmakers briefed on the call who spoke with CNN, McCarthy told Trump the rioters were Trump supporters and asked him to call them off.
Trump, Kevin McCarthy had expletive-filled call as rioters stormed Capitol, report says
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Then-President Donald Trump and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield on Feb. 19, 2020.JIM WATSON / TNS
As insurrectionists fought their way into the U.S. Capitol, then-President Donald Trump told House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy that the rioters cared more about the election’s outcome than he did, CNN reported Friday.
The call between Trump and McCarthy reportedly devolved into a expletive-filled shouting match as the Bakersfield Republican said the mob was trying to break into his office.
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said, according to CNN, which cited Republican lawmakers whom McCarthy briefed about the call.
The Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial Saturday, voting that Trump was not guilty of inciting the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol but the verdict amounted to a bipartisan rebuke of the former President with seven Republicans finding him guilty.