In a leaked recording earlier this year of Kevin McCarthy on a call with Liz Cheney and other House Republicans, the Minority Leader told Cheney that he would counsel Trump to resign back on January 10, 2021.
“I think [impeachment resolutions] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign,” McCarthy said he would tell Trump before further adding, “what he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.”
Liz Cheney had pressed McCarthy about whether Trump could possibly choose to resign on his own: “Is there any chance? Are you hearing that he might resign? Is there any reason to think that might happen?”
McCarthy then admitted that this was a topic he has “had a few discussions” about with others. “My gut tells me no,” he said. “I’m seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight…Um, from what I know of him, I mean you guys all know him too, do you think he’d ever back away? But what I think I’m going to do, is I’m going to call him.”
The minority leader then explained he would appeal to Trump’s reason regarding an impending impeachment resolution. “This, this is what I think, we know it’ll pass the House. I think there’s a chance it’ll pass the Senate, even when he’s gone. Um, and I think there’s a lot of ramifications for that.” One such ramification would be that Trump could never hold federal office again.
McCarthy also indicated that he believed Twitter and Facebook should delete the accounts of lawmakers who were supporting Trump’s claim of a rigged election. “We can’t put up with that,” he said. “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?”
The recording confirms a claim from the left and was documented in a soon-to-be-released book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future.”
When the claims within the book broke early in the news, McCarthy’s spokesman Mark Bednar refuted them saying, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.” McCarthy himself called the claims about his conversations “totally false” when the New York Times reported on them earlier today.
That was a lie. The audio was later released.
Kevin McCarthy now says he knows who leaked the video to The New York Times.
And he says he will reveal the name of this person.
Why? Why would he want to remind Trump voters that he will toss them all under the bus to save his own neck. That’s weird?
FOX News reported:
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says he knows who recorded him criticizing former President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.
McCarthy’s statement comes months after The New York Times published a recording of McCarthy taken on Jan. 10, 2021, in which he stated that Trump should resign. McCarthy now says he knows who was behind the leaked audio, and he plans to reveal the culprit sometime in the future, according to Politico.
“I know who recorded me,” he said Thursday. “I’ll bring it forward. I have it.”
McCarthy initially denied the recording existed, leading the NYT to publish it earlier this year.
