Audio: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign
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House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted Thursday night by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show.
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The New York Times reported Thursday that GOP leaders had told fellow Republicans that they believed Trump was responsible for inciting the insurrection and would personally urge him to resign.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday denied reports that he privately sought to push President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
McCarthy and other top Republicans were hell bent on distancing the GOP from Trump in the days after the January 6 Capitol rioting, according to the New York Times.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted Thursday night by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show.
McCarthy was caught red-handed after insisting that news that he’d told House members he would push Trump to resign after Jan. 6 was “totally false and wrong.”
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to a newly-released audio recording.
On Thursday, the New York Times reported on a recording from January 10, 2021 where McCarthy told House Republican leadership that he had “had it” with Trump and that he was going to recommend the then-president “resign.”
House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy told his colleagues in a recorded call that he doubted former President Trump would take the advice to step aside.
By Lauren Fox, CNN New audio of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy released on Thursday night reveals he did consider asking then-President Donald Trump to resign in the days after the January 6 riot — contradicting his office’s earlier denials of New York Times reporting that he had done so.
Contradicting his recent claims, McCarthy told GOP lawmakers after the Capitol riot that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted online.
After House Minority Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claimed on Thursday that he never privately told fellow House GOP leaders that he’d ask Trump to resign after Jan. 6, the journalists who’d reported his remarks released an audio clip of the remarks.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy denied earlier Thursday that he had said he would recommend then-President Donald Trump step down after the Jan. 6 riot.
“McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign,” his spokesman, Mark Bednar, told the Times. The recordings released Thursday evening prove otherwise. In a Jan. 8 phone call, McCarthy to...
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign. That's according to an
House GOP minority leader Kevin McCarthy was recorded in January saying he'd advise then-President Trump to resign after Jan. 6. It raises questions about his future and relationship with Trump.
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