House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) strolls through the U.S. Capitol throughout a vote in the U.S. House of Representives on a Democratic-backed resolution that would penalize U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her incendiary remarks supporting violence versus Democrats, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 4, 2021.
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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and previous President Donald Trump entered into an expletive-laden argument on a telephone call as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was still unfolding, 3 sources informed on the matter informed NBC News on Friday.
As crowds of pro-Trump advocates stormed the Capitol throughout the accreditation of Joe Biden’s Electoral College win, which led to the death of 5 individuals, McCarthy telephoned Trump to get him to manage his advocates.
Sources explained the call as “not cordial” and borderline incoherent, however it highlights more than what was openly offered at the time about Trump’s real-time response to the mob. He is presently in the middle of his 2nd impeachment trial on a charge of prompting the riot.
McCarthy put the call to Trump, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. Another source informed NBC News that McCarthy was shocked throughout the call and was asking the president for aid.
Trump informed McCarthy on the call, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” according to Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., and another Republican member knowledgeable about the discussion.
CNN was initially to report Trump’s remarks about the rioters being more “upset” about the election than McCarthy.
“When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol,” Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wa., stated in a statement posted to Twitter on Friday night.
At one point throughout the call, McCarthy informed Trump: “Who the f—k do you think you are talking to?” according to a Republican legislator informed on the discussion.
