‘I Don’t Trust a Thing Kevin McCarthy Says’: Kinzinger Rips His Party’s Leader for Claiming He Doesn’t Recall Jan. 6 Conversation – By Michael Luciano (Mediaite) / July 29, 2022
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) laced into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after the latter said he couldn’t remember a phone call with a White House aide he had just before the Capitol insurrection.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified last month before the committee. She stated under oath that McCarthy called her on Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump told a crowd of his supporters in Washington, D.C. that he would march to the Capitol in solidarity to protest the certification of the 2020 election that he lost.
Hutchinson told the committee:
“[McCarthy] then explained the President just said he’s marching to the Capitol. ‘You told me this whole week you aren’t coming up here. Why would you lie to me?’ I said, ‘I wasn’t lying to you, sir. We’re not going to the Capitol.’”
