Witness: McCarthy Told Me Trump Admitted He Lost

Politico reports:

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told then-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, that Donald Trump had privately acknowledged losing the 2020 election, according to a newly disclosed interview Hutchinson gave to the Jan. 6 select committee.

In the Sept. 14 interview — her fifth as a witness for the select committee — Hutchinson described frequent calls with McCarthy in the run-up to the attack on the Capitol and said that he told her he was afraid then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had not adequately prepared Trump to accept defeat.

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Days later, McCarthy, despite his apparent commentary to Hutchinson, would vote to obejct to the election results in two states, even after the violence on Jan. 6. https://t.co/IjXkhmuSbf

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