Hutchinson: Trump Admitted To McCarthy He Lost Before Jan 6
Former President Donald Trump knew that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden even before Jan. 6 when he whipped his crowd of supporters into a frenzy over his Big Lie of widespread voter fraud that didn't exist. He knew. And most of us knew that he was aware of his defeat.
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.
"What's Mark thinking?" Hutchinson recalled McCarthy telling her about Meadows in a conversation that took place sometime between Jan. 2 and Jan. 5. "He's giving the president bad advice."