Kevin McCarthy’s rage at Trump over Jan. 6 signals danger ahead

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McCarthy feared his life was about to come to a violent end. After Trump snarled that McCarthy should be “more upset,” this happened:

“More upset?” McCarthy yelled back incredulously, according to an account he gave a few hours later to a Republican colleague. “They’re trying to f–ing kill me!”
After McCarthy’s security detail removed him, Draper reports, another Republican lawmaker remained behind, hiding crouched on a toilet while rioters tore through McCarthy’s suite.

Despite all this, McCarthy quickly pivoted to helping Trump obfuscate about the run-up to what happened that day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/11/kevin-mccarthy-trump-robert-draper-book-jan-6/

 

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Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 committee, says this new reporting strengthens the case that Trump sought to use mob violence to obstruct the official proceeding of counting the presidential electors — a potential crime — by impeding the lawmakers themselves.

“This is a meaningful corroborating detail in the already abundant evidence that Trump set about to interfere with this crucial federal proceeding, the peaceful transfer of power,” Raskin told me, noting that this also “underscores McCarthy’s complicity in helping Trump cover up for the dangerous violence that he had unleashed.”