House GOPer Urges Trump To Tell MAGA Extremists To Stand Down Amid Threat Of Another Insurrection

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 30: Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, right, chairman of the China Task Force, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conduct a news conference on the China Task Force report in the Capitol’s Rayburn Room on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. The report outlines bipartisan action to combat threats from China. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the China Task Force conducts a news conference in the Capitol’s Rayburn Room on September 30, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) on Wednesday asserted that it’s on ex-President Donald Trump to help quell the threat of a potential second attack on the Capitol on Thursday by telling his extremist supporters to stand down.

“Leaders should be very vocal in condemning all forms of extremism,” McCaul tweeted with a clip of his CNN interview in which he urges Trump to speak out.

“I think President Trump has a responsibility to tell them to stand down,” the GOP congressman told CNN. “This threat is credible. It’s real.”

The House cancelled its Thursday session after Capitol Police warned of a “possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group” on March 4, the day a QAnon conspiracy theory falsely claims will be the day Trump will be inaugurated.

McCaul was part of the majority of House Republicans who voted against impeaching Trump after the former president incited the insurrection on January 6.

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  1. Sorry dude, but we already gave them your address.

  2. House GOPer Urges Trump To Tell MAGA Extremists To Stand Down Amid Threat Of Another Insurrection

    This will convince Donnie he’s doing the right thing.

    And gloating is in order.

  3. Well, that should work. Trump has such a long history of showing respect, not just for Congress, but for all of our government institutions. A polite request from a Congressman should be all that’s needed for Trump to call this off. Case closed, I say. Nothing to see here folks.

  4. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    Maybe Kevin McCarthy could call Trump and persuade him into calling for “restraint” because the insurrection could result in the loss of lives …
    Oh … right … Trump doesn’t care…

  5. Trump will give some speech or write something out that basically tells them there needs to be an armed insurrection then subtly tell them he means it only figuratively, wink wink.

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