Posted on 04/22/2022 12:22:37 PM PDT by RandFan
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told colleagues that he’d “had it” with former President Trump, according to recordings of House GOP calls in the days after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
The calls also show that McCarthy claimed Trump took some responsibility for the riot.
The recordings back up reporting in The New York Times, adapted from the upcoming book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” that McCarthy had vehemently denied on Thursday morning. The report revealed top Republican leaders going farther in bashing Trump than previously reported.
McCarthy told House GOP leadership colleagues in a Jan. 10, 2021, call that he had “had it” with Trump.
“Alright, I know this is not fun, I know this is not great. I know this is very tough. But what I want to do, especially through here, is I don’t want to rush things. I want everybody to have all the information needed. I’ve had it with this guy. What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it,” McCarthy said in the recording of the call, first released on CNN Friday morning.
CNN also released a recording from a Jan. 11, 2021, House GOP conference call with a much larger group of House Republicans in which McCarthy said that Trump took some responsibility for the Capitol attack.
“But let me be very clear to all of you, and I’ve been very clear to the president: He bears responsibility for his words and actions. No ifs, ands or buts. I asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad about what happened?” McCarthy said. “He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. And he need to acknowledge that.”
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Bush League Republicans are anti-MAGA.
Re-electing Amnesty Senators is the opposite of MAGA.
RINO Rat inside the GOP caucus recording these calls, then passing it off to NYT / CNN.
“Hello Kevin? This is Donald Trump. We have some urgent issues to discuss. I will see you in the main dining room at the Mar-a-Lago Hotel next Thursday the 28th at 1.30pm.
Bring your own lunch!”
” He bears responsibility for his words and actions. “
I guess that goes for you too Kevin! You Paul RINO POS!
Every freeper needs to call their Republican Reps and tell them NO! on Kevin RINO McCARTHY for Speaker!
Why didn’t Trump encourage or even pay someone to primary him? I don’t live there but I would have. Nobody stepped up. Now it’s too late.
Dems are helping us by replacing McCarthy with Jim Jordan.
That said, who the hell is doing the recording? That is true scum.
Unfortunately most of the GOP caucus are Bush League Republicans.
When we had the temerity to elect MAGA people the GOP marginalized them.
Rinos will put there who they want. We keep electing Establishment sorts because they are magically somehow better then Democrats we can replace easier with our guys next go around.
Kevin will be Speaker, if they win. I doubt they will. Democrats will steal.
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
That RINO Rat was probably Liz Cheney.
To be fair you’ve been saying the same thing for a long time... 150 of them wanted to re-elect Cheney.
RINO bump for later....
A RINO rat is doing the recording.
This isn’t trending on Gettr. I heard Jason Miller praising McCarthy once on Bannon.
It was 145 that voted for Liz in Feb 2021, but the point remains that we keep re-electing people who repeatedly betray us.
McCarthy is a Paul Ryan wannaabe.
Next thing you’ll know they’ll rip Jim Jordan in the media about those gym sexual allegationn
McCart MUST be removed from the position of Minority Leader, RIGHT NOW!!!
Melt the phones!
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“The calls also show that McCarthy claimed Trump took some responsibility for the riot”
This is real purpose of this and it is all part of the set up. When the rats call for charges this will fold in as panned.
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