January 6 police hero Harry Dunn was dumbfounded that Donald Trump helped Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) win the battle to become speaker of the House – yet could not be bothered to pick up the phone to stop the insurrection.
“Wow,” Dunn said on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” after watching McCarthy gush over a video clip of Trump working on the phone to help him win the 15th vote to become speaker in the end.
“I don’t think about Donald Trump,” the Capitol police officer told host Jonathan Capehart.
McCarthy said Trump “called her and stayed on the phone with her,” a suddenly emotional Dunn said. “Hopefully he’ll do it on January 6th. He can call, he can pick up the phone. Man, wow… Really?”
Dunn was repeatedly called racial slurs – for the first time in his job – by MAGA zealots during the fight for hours to protect lawmakers from the violent mob of Trump supporters who invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to overthrow the presidential election. He began to suffer from severe post-traumatic stress syndrome.
“It broke me, you know, it broke me,” Dunn said of the experience in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Nearly 140 officers from the Washington Metropolitan Police Department and the Capitol Police were injured in the riot.
McCarthy, on the day after the two-year anniversary of the violence, said of the former president on Saturday: “I want to thank President Trump in particular. I don’t think anyone should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning … he was all in .He will call me and he will call other people.
Dunn said on ABC that Trump should be held accountable for the violence at the Capitol.
“I believe he should be held accountable for his actions or inactions that day… that’s why all eyes are on the Justice Department now,” he said. “There were criminal acts committed by the former president. I don’t see how you can’t take responsibility for that day,” Dunn added.
Dunn and his fellow officers on Friday were awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal — the nation’s second-highest civilian award — by President Joe Biden.
“Officer Harry Dunn acted with courage and bravery in defense of our institutions and our people,” Biden said during the award ceremony.
Check out Dunn’s full MSNBC interview below. Dunn responded to McCarthy’s statement about Trump at 7:19.