really telling, jake, because it shows that trump is still in command of this party. republicans were afraid to speak up against him. and meanwhile, gop leaders have been absolutely silent, even though they had quite a lot to say in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, and that includes kevin mccarthy, the house gop leader who was cited yesterday in the testimony as being one of the people who was deeply concerned by the idea of trump coming to the capitol on january 6th. yeah. and it s interesting because donald trump has really been taking it on the chin from conservative media after yesterday s hearing. i m not talking about the dead enders on the other chandal, but people in conservative editorial boards and such. tell us more about that. really tough headlines for trump. i want to tick through a few of them. the wall street journal editorial board said, republicans should not look away from the compelling evidence. the conservative washington examiner called tru
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under oath to say that s not true, and i don t know where those people are. and always being paid by the trump world and people around trump, who are the subject of this committee. i think that s an important part of it too. what was your reaction to the hearing? i guess my question is more to what you were talking about with the washington examiner and all these people coming out and saying this about donald trump because i think i have a little bit of your reaction, you re just now coming to this it seems strange that this one i mean automatic january 6th stuff happened on tv. so they are clearly aware of it, aware that the president denied the election is legitimate, all these things. it makes me wonder that they are doing this because they now think donald trump just can t win? so is this about the fact that this tarnishs him so much, that he needs to step aside to somebody else? i don t understand how this would make it so much worse? because we all knew all of this.
tell us what they re telling you privately. publicly, most republicans are trying to downplay yesterday s testimony or change the subject. but privately, it is a much different story. the gop is really starting to recognize how serious this is for donald trump and his allies. and they were particularly alarmed by the fact that trump knew the mob was armed and dangerous and he sent them to the capitol anyway. in fact, he tried to join them. he wanted to join them. one senior house republican who did not support miempt told me that they thought there would be indictments after yesterday s testimony. another gop lawmaker said after watching the hearing, they wanted to throw their lunch against the wall, a reference to the fact that trump apparently through his lunch against the wall when he was angry. and another house republican told me that they said yesterday s hearing really proved that trump was hell bent on trying to be at the capitol and was personally involved in trying to overt
really telling, jake, because it shows that trump is still in command of this party. republicans were afraid to speak up against him. and meanwhile, gop leaders have been absolutely silent, even though they had quite a lot to say in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, and that includes kevin mccarthy, the house gop leader who was cited yesterday in the testimony as being one of the people who was deeply concerned by the idea of trump coming to the capitol on january 6th. yeah. and it s interesting because donald trump has really been taking it on the chin from conservative media after yesterday s hearing. i m not talking about the dead enders on the other chandal, but people in conservative editorial boards and such. tell us more about that. really tough headlines for trump. i want to tick through a few of them. the wall street journal editorial board said, republicans should not look away from the compelling evidence. the conservative washington examiner called trump unfit t