CNN Unearths Audio Of Kevin McCarthy Saying Trump Admitted Responsibility For Riot

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Huffington Post

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said days after the U.S. Capitol riot that then-President Donald Trump had admitted to him that he bore some responsibility for the violence that unfurled among his supporters on Jan. 6 last year.

“I say he has responsibility. He told me personally that he does have some responsibility. I think a lot of people do,” McCarthy said in a Jan. 12 interview with Bakersfield, California, radio station KERN that CNN’s “K-File” unearthed and released on Friday.

Listen to the audio here:

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McCarthy reportedly made a similar claim about Trump taking responsibility for the riot in a Jan. 11 call to Republican lawmakers, per Reuters.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-jan-6-confession_n_61e28c3ee4b01f707da37e60

[KPN]

1. Too bad we won't see this on all the half hour

evening news programs across the US a time or two over the next week. And then repeatedly during the run-up to November elections.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

19. There is total radio silence on national evening news programs...it's almost criminal how quiet

they all are on all the evil being revealed day by day on the attempted coup..and all in lockstep.

[Cha]

2. Rt TY.. the Senile Definse.

[Victor_c3]

7. I'm 41 and that's always my defense

That, and I learned to never say anything with any degree of certainty - especially to my wife. Well, she's now my ex-wife, but saying that you are sure of anything will always come back to bite you in the ass when dealing with her. I always would start off saying almost everything I said to her with "I don't know? maybe...." or "I think that...." or when asked about my opinion on something to just not give an opinion because it would always be wrong.

Not following that protocol would end up in her screaming and throwing stuff at me and her telling our kids how much she hated me and that she wanted a divorce. I finally took her up on that divorce and I couldn't be happier.

[keithbvadu2]

23. 41 is a tough age.

Henry Hyde said that his adultery at age 41 was a youthful indiscretion.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. That's quite a pivot, from saying Trump is responsible for inciting an insurrection, to...

lovingly cupping his balls.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Ha! Made me laugh.

[XacerbatedDem]

25. HA!!! 10-1 Mac forgot about that, too.

[KS Toronado]

4. "I think a lot of people do"

OK Kevin who do you think these other people are? Cat got your tongue?

[ShazzieB]

9. Cat's got his tongue all right.

A very large orange cat whose name rhymes with dump, lump, rump, and chump.

[highplainsdem]

5. This needs to go viral online and get lots of attention in the news.

And the Sunday morning talk shows...

[Raven123]

22. I agree with you.

[Tommymac]

6. Oopsie.

Hey Kevin, your underwear is showing.

[FakeNoose]

8. Somehow, some way, Chump got to Kevin McCarthy

McCarthy has been corrupted or blackmailed.

How do I know? Because in the first couple days after the insurrection McCarthy was ready to impeach him.
McCarthy was ready to convict him. So what exactly turned him around?

Hmmmm....?

[ShazzieB]

10. Remember that little trip he took to Mar-a-Lago shortly after that?

I don't know what FailedCoupGuy said to him down there, but he came back singing a completely different tune.

[FakeNoose]

11. Somebody knows something, but getting them to talk is another story

[monkeyman1]

14. TFG grab'd a hand full & twisted till kev'y cry'd uncle !

[Evolve Dammit]

18. a long chat. Would be nice to know the contents. When a few are indicted, we may start to hear truth

[JI7]

26. It wasn't Trump himself as much as it was Trump supporters

that make up most of the Republican base.

[turbinetree]

12. Just go pass go and Lock the whole bunch up....

[Mr. Ected]

13. The entire Republican Party is part of the conspiracy and walking in lockstep is their best bet

To walk off the side of the planet and tumble forever into the abyss.

[monkeyman1]

15. republican's tell soo many lies can't remember the last one !

[GB_RN]

17. Qevin Had To Know This Was Out There...

And was afraid it would pop up, which explains his refusal to testify before the 1/6 Committee: If he'd testified, and then the video surfaced, he'd be busted for perjury. And he certainly couldn't tell the truth with people like Marjory Traitor Gangrene running around who'd be (almost literally) gunning for him.

[DallasNE]

20. Important Moments Like That Are Seared Into Your Memory

McCarthy will take that memory to his grave so of course he is lying when he says he doesn't remember.

[Slammer]

21. hearsay

Too bad you can't use hearsay in court proceedings.

But you can certainly bring it up in congressional investigations.

[keithbvadu2]

24. McCarthy: Putin pays Trump?

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: [California Republican Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, according to the report.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/333951-majority-leader-mccarthy-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump

Now McCarthy is a converted rabid Trump sycophant like Lindsey G and Rafael Cruz.

[Brainfodder]

27. Filed under DUH? Waddle Dump trying to try the idea of admitting guilt now?