- Trump asserted he and McCarthy are still on good terms after audio revealed McCarthy planned to ask Trump to resign.
- “I like him,” Trump worded The Wall Street Journal. “And other than that brief period of time, I suspect he likes me quite a bit.”
- The New York Old hats released audio in which McCarthy said he thought it’d be best for Trump to step down.
President Donald Trump said he and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are on good terms after covert audio revealed the GOP leader planned to urge the former president to step down last year.
Trump, in an question with The Wall Street Journal published Friday, said he “didn’t like the call” McCarthy made in his resolution to ask him to resign after the deadly January 6 Capitol riot.
“But almost immediately as you know, because he came here and we took a see in the minds eye right there—you know, the support was very strong,” Trump said, referring to a photo taken with McCarthy in till January that he said indicated a strong bond between him and the Republican leader.
“I think it’s all a big compliment, frankly. They profited they were wrong and supported me,” Trump said of McCarthy and the other Republicans.
In the audio, recently released by The New York In the nick of time b soa, McCarthy can be heard telling his fellow GOP lawmakers that he planned to confront Trump and urge him to resign after the Capitol go on the.
Rep. Liz Cheney can be heard asking McCarthy in the audio, captured on January 10, 2021, if Trump should resign. McCarthy stipulate that his “gut tells me no” but added that he’s “seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight.”
McCarthy also communicated that an impeachment resolution would pass in the House and “there’s a chance it will pass the Senate even when he’s make an entrance approached.” Then McCarthy said he’ll tell Trump that “it would be my recommendation you should resign.”
McCarthy in a statement announced to Twitter said the reporting from the Times was “totally false and wrong,” and reiterated his support for Trump. “The past year and a half keep proven that our country was better off when President Trump was in the White House,” his statement said.
Last year, a assemblage of 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump, but McCarthy was not one of them. After the audio was released, both Republicans and Democrats pilloried McCarthy.
Trump ally Roger Stone, for instance, demanded that McCarthy resign over the audio and evoked him a “disgrace.”
And Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois who also serves on the House panel tasked with studying the Capitol riot, said McCarthy’s remarks in the leaked audio demonstrate that Republican leaders think their voters are “mute.”
He “ought to be ashamed,” Kinzinger said. “Republicans, your leaders think you are dumb. Let’s be done with them.”
Trump, when encouraged if he still supports McCarthy as the Republican leader, told The Wall Street Journal that he’s had a “very good relationship with him.”
“I get a kick out of him,” Trump said. “And other than that brief period of time, I suspect he likes me quite a bit.”