Trump admitted to being responsible for the Capitol riot.

 Kevin McCarthy reportedly told Republicans in a phone call last year that Trump admitted to being partially responsible for the Capitol riot. Now McCarthy says he doesn't remember that call.

"In the days after January 6, 2021, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republicans in a private phone call that then President Donald Trump admitted that he shared some responsibility for the Capitol riot, according to CNN."

robably they would have tried to frame it as all the democrats fault in various ways. I believe that is the conclusion they would have started with for the civil unrest in 2020. They would have probably then tried to use the one to justify the other, once again turning the, well, insurrectionists into heroes.

I'm of course not saying any of this is valid. It is not, but giving anyone McCarthy would appoint a chance to speak and he will start lying in whatever ways he think helps their party the most.

At this point, we shouldn’t be expecting anything aside from unadulterated corruption from the Republican Party. They have been exposed, pursuing a failed factional power grab and they’re not done.

Get ready, folks. The next 2 years will be a huge shift in the American government. Either the Democrats will get their hands dirty and deal with this or the GOP will take the House/Senate by any means possible, this year. Then, they will elect Trump as king in 2024.

This isn’t hyperbole, it’s what they’ve shown us.

At this point, we can trust nothing that comes out of the mouth of a republican, and the same holds true for many democrats. This was a planned coup. How we haven't jailed a bunch of politicians is beyond me...

...unless everyone is busy covering for one another. I include some democrats in "everyone".

We all saw what happened on January 6. We saw Trump's speech, we saw his militant, wanna-be allies, we saw the result. Investigate what? It's all on video.

The problem here is that, like voting, republicans are viewing laws as suggestions. Too many democrats are seeing the law in the same way. Is the law so nuanced and subtle?

Let's use an easy example: if a black man stood in front of a crowd of black people and said "we're all going to head down to the Capitol and fight like hell" (along with a long list of other incendiary comments), would the process of charging, trying, and jailing those involved take this long? It'd be a slam dunk case.

Which it is...but for a bunch of self-entitled, old white men...it's not.

This cluster-fuck of an "investigation" will simply lead to more violence. Maybe that's the plan.

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

"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."

The Soundcloud link:

https://soundcloud.com/louis-amestoy/kevin-mccarthy-explains-impeachment-vote

2:30, 5:15 11:00-14:00 discussion on bipartisan commission

• Trump was inciting his supporters for months after the election.

• Trump then asked all his supporters to come to Washington DC on January 6th and promises January 6th "will be wild!"

• On January 6th, Trump incites them some more in a morning rally in Washington DC. He tells his supporters to "fight like hell." What does "fight like hell" mean? Well, another one of Trump's speakers that morning, Rudy Giuliani, adds context to Trump's "fight like hell" statement by telling Trump's supporters to engage in "trial by combat."

• After inciting his supporters in Washington DC and getting them even more angry that morning, Trump finally tells his supporters to march to the Capitol.

t's amazing how the GOP has basically individually attacked each one of these points, but only individually because they'd look ridiculous trying to explain away the entire chain of events.

For example, Trump's and Giuliani's speeches on 1/6 are treated like isolated events separate from any previous context. They'll explain it away as typical politically charged language in speeches and give a bunch of examples where Dems have used similar language. "Oh he said to fight? Well here's a speech OAC gave to a group of college kids saying to fight for their education. GOT EM!"