In Surfaced Early 2021 Interview, McCarthy Said Trump Admitted To Him That He Bore Responsibility For Riot

CNN reports:

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said publicly and privately in the days following the deadly riots at the US Capitol that President Donald Trump admitted personally bearing some responsibility for the attack — one of several reasons why the select committee on January 6 wants to hear from the House’s top Republican.

McCarthy shared the details of his conversation with Trump in a little-noticed local radio interview done a week after the insurrection, in which McCarthy said he supported a committee to investigate the attack and supported censuring then-President Trump.

“I say he has responsibility,” McCarthy said on KERN, a local radio station in Bakersfield, California, on January 12 of last year. “He told me personally that he does have some responsibility. I think a lot of people do.”

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NEW: From @Kfile & @MZanona:
In the days after the Capitol Riot- Kevin McCarthy told a local radio host and House Republicans that Donald Trump admitted to him that he bore some responsibility for the events of that day. https://t.co/Zst8P7BhZI

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) January 14, 2022