Report: Trump Blamed ‘Antifa’ For Capitol Insurrection He Incited On Call With McCarthy | Talking Points Memo

President Donald Trump, still bent on spreading false information on Monday, sought to blame “antifa” for a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week during a call with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Axios reported.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1353915
2 Likes

image

84 Likes

So, guess he learned his lesson, everything can go back to normal.

21 Likes

Because Trump confused the people he talked to, those with Trump and Confederate flags, with Antifa.

Or he’s an evil manipulative seditionist.

15 Likes

I guess it depends on what your definition of “delusional” is. Nobody has ever said he hears voices. But these self-apologia completely divorced from reality in private conversations with supporters suggests he can’t psychologically bear to face his failures and atrocious behavior, even in his own mind. At least in layperson terms, that’s delusional. He has to invent a different, more bearable reality than the one you and I see in front of us.

63 Likes

A day later, after Trump reviewed press coverage of a video message he released on Thursday calling for “healing and reconciliation,” a senior White House official told the Post that the President expressed regret for posting the reconciliatory message, suggesting it made him look weak.

He’s a psychopath. A complete psychopath.

40 Likes

Trust me. It’s way nicer there than here in this covid wasteland.

14 Likes

I’ve always associated this clip with DJT.

21 Likes

Re McCarthy’s (alleged) push-back here with Trump on the antifa stuff, I wonder if McCarthy also had a chance to have a chat with Matt Gaetz on his making the exact same claim.

30 Likes

One adviser described to the Post a mesmerized Trump “just watching it all unfold,” live on television.

How much more proof than this is necessary to convince Republicans that immediate impeachment/Section 3-14th Amendment/25th Amendment/criminal charges are mandatory NOW???

17 Likes

OT, but I’m just devastated by this sad, sad news. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

34 Likes

McCarthy… if he did not know before … knows now … knows that Trump is wildly lying.

But … McCarthy will still cling to Trump, as he has nothing else… so McCarthy will enable & spread the lies…

20 Likes

Shucks.

2 Likes

17 Likes

McCarthy’s best angel is named Lucifer.

15 Likes

Now do Rupert Murdoch

27 Likes

You’re so adorable.

He could have slung an AR-15 over his shoulder, led the crowd up the Mall, and started shooting any cops standing in his way, and Collins would express disapproval of his methods, but note that there were questions about vote totals, and, anyway, it’s just too late in the game to remove him, and he must have learned his lesson.

43 Likes

I have it on good authority that those dogs are named Gaetz and Gohmert.

20 Likes

He’s not even good at manipulation. He was afraid to look ‘weak’? Being afraid to look weak is, itself, a sign of weakness.

35 Likes
  1. This is CYA by McCarthy, a key member of the House Sedition Caucus.
  2. More of same to come from others, not unlike the Pompeo/Mnuchin smokescreen that they discussed the 25th Amendment between themselves…privately.
  3. Mulvaney’s excuse was particularly craven…“The WH was not on fire when I left it.”
  4. Perhaps Javanka will claim that Trump had a teeny TIA on Jan. 5 and just isn’t himself.
30 Likes