Impeachmen' 2: Electoral Boogaloo

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(02-13-2021, 03:39 AM)Dill Wrote: Breaking news. This will spice up the last day of the trial.


Herrera Beutler says McCarthy told her Trump sided with Capitol mob
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/herrera-beutler-says-mccarthy-told-her-trump-sided-with-capitol-mob/

On the eve of a verdict in Donald Trump’s Senate trial, one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him confirmed Friday night that the top House Republican, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, told her that the former president had sided with the mob during a phone call as the Jan. 6 Capitol attack unfolded.

In a statement Friday night, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., recounted a phone call relayed to her by McCarthy of California, the minority leader, in which Trump was said to have sided with the rioters, telling the top House Republican that members of the mob who had stormed the Capitol were “more upset about the election than you are.”

She pleaded with witnesses to step forward and share what they knew about Trump’s actions and statements as the attack was underway.

“To the patriots who were standing next to the former president as these conversations were happening, or even to the former vice president: if you have something to add here, now would be the time,” Herrera Beutler said in the statement....

Her account of the call between McCarthy and Trump, first reported by CNN, addressed a crucial question in the impeachment trial: what Trump was doing and saying privately while the Capitol was being overrun.

Herrera Beutler said that McCarthy had relayed details of his phone call with Trump to her. She has been speaking publicly about it for weeks, including during a virtual town hall Monday with constituents, and confirmed it in the statement Friday....

She said McCarthy asked him “to publicly and forcefully call off the riot.”

Trump replied by saying that antifa, not his supporters, was responsible. When McCarthy said that was not true, the former president was curt.

“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” he said, according to Herrera Beutler’s account of what McCarthy told her.

Hours after the assault began, Trump tweeted a video in which he asked those ransacking the Capitol to leave. “Go home. We love you. You’re very special,” he said.

What I am really enjoying are the people who STILL think we should suspend everything Trump has ever said or done and "give him a chance" that he really didn't want the mob to get violent or he didn't "mean" they had to fight or lose their country forever.

After all this time we have to try an pretend the scorpion isn't a scorpion and then feign surprise when we get stung.  They have either learned nothing, are incapable of learning or are as dirty as he is.