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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.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had been planning to ask former President Donald Trump to resign in the wake off January 6 Capitol riot. McCarthy wanted Trump removed from the party.

WASHINGTON – House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would ...

Rep. McCarthy and Sen. McConnell initially seemed to support harsher action against Trump, but backed off. Read more at Boston.com.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy denied telling colleagues he would urge President Trump to resign after the Capitol riot. Newly released audio contradicts that.

More tapes of Kevin McCarthys private conversations with House Republicans were released in which he claims Trump told him he bore some responsibility for Jan. 6 insurrection.

McCarthy told Cheney he was considering advising then President Donald Trump to resign from office in 2021.

The bombshell tape emerged just hours after the House Minority Leader derided as “totally false” a published account about the exact same discussion.

Recording is from Jan. 10 conversation among Republican leaders in which they discussed Democratic effort to remove Trump from office

“I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign,” the House Republican leader is heard telling Liz Cheney, referring to an impeachment effort