Six months after Jan. 6, 2021, Kevin McCarthy claimed Trump didn't know his supporters were attacking the Capitol. That's according to a secret tape from former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, detailed in his new book.
taking Jan. 6 more seriously, Fanone writes that McCarthy hinted he couldn't control fringe members of his party.Co-written by Reuters journalist John Shiffman, "Hold the Line" also describes tapes of conversations between Fanone and D.C. police union leaders who shy away from defending Fanone in order to avoid upsetting the union's pro-Trump members.There are vivid details about Fanone's two-decade career in D.C.
including in the First District where he writes that residents are plagued by "poverty, drugs, and violence."son of the late former Mayor Marion Barry. Fanone writes that in 2005 he responded to a domestic assault call at an apartment where the younger Barry ended up punching him and leaving him concussed.
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