The top House Republican accused the committee, which is investigating a political attempt to overturn the results of a presidential election, as illegitimate
The letter also references a conversation he had with a news outlet in his California congressional district, which reported that McCarthy had a “very heated conversation” with Trump as the riot was taking place. Other reports note that when McCarthy told Trump to issue a statement, Trump initially refused to do it before finally relenting and saying he would send a tweet. “That tweet wasn’t good enough for McCarthy, who wanted more,” Punchbowl news wrote on Jan. 8.
McCarthy also detailed his conversation with the president to colleagues in Congress. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler later issued a statement about the conversation, noting that when McCarthy told Trump to call off the riot, Trump “repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol.” McCarthy then told the president the rioters were his supporters. “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump replied, according to the account.
In the days following the attack, McCarthy blamed Trump explicitly. “The President bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” he said on the House floor on Jan. 13. “Let’s be clear,” he added, “Joe Biden will be sworn in as the President of the United States in one week because he won the election.”
McCarthy may have been incensed at the president’s lack of action on and immediately after Jan. 6, but it didn’t take him long to fall in line with the subsequent party-wide effort to downplay the significance of the attack. In June, he put multiple Republicans who did so on an
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