Audio Busts McCarthy’s Lies About Bombshell Report

April 22, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had planned to get former president Donald Trump to resign after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, The New York Times revealed in an audio recording Thursday. In the recorded conversation, McCarthy, a Republican, said that he didn’t believe Trump would voluntarily step down, and contemplated rallying Congress to have him impeached a second time, saying that he believed the measure would pass both the House and Senate.

“I’m seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight,” McCarthy said. “From what I know of him — I mean, you guys know him too — do you think he would ever back away?” McCarthy said he would alert the former president of his plans to begin an impeachment trial if he did not resign. “I think this will pass, and that would be my recommendation you should resign,” McCarthy said. “That would be my take, but I don’t think he would take it, but I don’t know.”

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My statement on the New York Times pic.twitter.com/PWi2WkoWzh

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) April 21, 2022

Jonathan Martin says they have McCarthy on tape hoping Twitter would suspend some of his own members pic.twitter.com/kNx0nNGa70

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 22, 2022

.@GOPLeader says that the new NY Times reporting about him is “totally false” & he never said he’d call Trump to tell him to resign. He lied.

Here is the tape. https://t.co/6ooSMcYeTH

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) April 22, 2022

Well McCarthy’s denial that he ever recommended Trump resign looks dead and Liz Cheney (with a recorded phone call and a strategic leak?) looks like she murdered it https://t.co/6Tv4daOIWn

— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 22, 2022

God these tapes are so infuriating. Kevin McCarthy is casually discussing 25th Amendment, telling Trump to resign, and making sure Pence won’t pardon him…WITH LIZ CHENEY. Only to, weeks later, kick Cheney out of leadership for saying the same things he did.

— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) April 22, 2022

I have a feeling a few Republican House members have tweets ready to go in their drafts attacking McCarthy but they’re waiting to see how Trump responds

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 22, 2022