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In the conversation, President Donald Trump has refused to ask his supporters to halt the attack on the National Assembly on January 6, CNN reports.
Trump is reported to have responded, “Well Kevin, I think these people are more upset than you are about the election result.”
McCarthy is said to have been so upset that he replied, “Who the hell do you think you’re talking to?”
Fiery vocabulary
The conversation then turned into a shouting match between the two who exchanged insults.
CNN claims they have received the information from various sources before the Republican Party that they learned of the phone call directly from McCarthy shortly after. One of them was Congressman Jaime Herrera Beutler, who confirmed the information in an open meeting and directly to CNN.
Republican camp leader Kevin McCarthy pleaded with the president to ask his supporters to stop the storm, but was not heard.
Photo: Tasos Katopodis / AFP
The information was known until Saturday night after the day’s hearings in the Supreme Court case in Washington DC concluded. Several commenters have called the information shocking and revealing.
Trump’s lawyers say Trump didn’t know
In the Supreme Court case Friday night, Trump’s defense attorney said Trump was unaware that, among others, Vice President Mike Pence was in danger.
Other sources make it clear that this afternoon Trump was viewing live television footage of the Congressional assault on the White House.
Pence was evacuated from the Senate minutes before the rebels forcibly entered the room. Outside, the rebels had mounted a gallows. As they walked through the halls of the convention building, they yelled “Hang up Mike Pence, hang up Mike Pence.”
Trump’s defenders claimed in the Supreme Court case that Trump sent multiple Twitter messages as the uprising was unfolding, calling on the rebels to calm down. But advocates omitted the message that Trump attacked Pence and said he lacked courage, or that it took several hours before he urged his followers to go home.
Require ethical scrutiny
Senator Tommy Tuberville also told CNN that he was on the phone with President Trump during the uprising and that he told the president that Pence had to be evacuated from the Senate. Tuberville says Trump was clearly aware of how dangerous it was.
Seven senators are now asking the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate what happened during this phone conversation.
