President Donald Trump said he and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are on good terms after secret audio revealed the GOP leader planned to urge the former president to step down last year.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday, Trump said he didn't like the call McCarthy made to ask him to resign.
The support was very strong after we took a picture with him, Trump said, referring to a photo taken with McCarthy in late January.
I think it is a big compliment. Trump said that McCarthy and the other Republicans supported him.
The New York Times recently released an audio in which McCarthy can be heard telling his fellow GOP lawmakers that he planned to confront Trump and urge him to resign.
In the audio captured on January 10, 2021, Liz Cheney can be heard asking McCarthy if Trump should resign. McCarthy said that his gut tells him no, but that he is seriously thinking of having a conversation with him tonight.
McCarthy said that an impeachment resolution would pass in the House and that it was possible it would pass the Senate.
McCarthy said the reporting from the Times was false and that the country was better off when Trump was in the White House.
A group of 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump, but McCarthy was not one of them.
Roger Stone demanded that McCarthy resign over the audio and called him a disgrace.
Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois who also serves on the House panel tasked with investigating the Capitol riot, said McCarthy's remarks in the leaked audio demonstrate that Republican leaders think their voters are dumb.
Kinzinger said that he would be ashamed. Let them be done with.
When asked if he still supports McCarthy, Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he had a good relationship with him.
Trump said he liked him and that he liked him quite a bit.
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