Jared Kushner testified to the January 6 committee he was taking a shower during the storming of the Capitol

Jake Lahut
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An image of Jared Kushner, Former White House Senior Advisor to former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during the third hearing held by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 16, 2022 in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC.
An image of Jared Kushner shown during a hearing for the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. CapitolTom Brenner-Pool/Getty Images

  • Then-White House advisor Jared Kushner said he was taking a shower as the Capitol riot unfolded.

  • Kushner disclosed the detail in a clip from his video deposition shown at Thursday night's hearing.

  • He told the January 6 committee that he was receiving a call from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy.

Then-White House advisor Jared Kushner was taking a shower when House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy interrupted him with a troubling phone call about the riot at the US Capitol.

Kushner testified about the call in a video deposition shown during Thursday night's hearing from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

"So I heard my phone ringing, turned the shower off, saw it was Leader McCarthy, who I had a good relationship with," Kushner said. "He told me it was getting really ugly over at the Capitol, and said please, anything you could do to help, I would appreciate it."

The call would have come at some point between 2 and 3 p.m., according to the timeline of events from the day of the attack.

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