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Then-US President Donald Trump, his right hand raised to should level as if in mid-salute, addresses the traveling press pool as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is behind him, tries to chime in.
Former President Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy speak to reporters while en route Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on May 30, 2020.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
  • Kevin McCarthy knows better than to cross Trump.

  • Trump said that the House GOP leader wouldn't say that.

  • McCarthy has an "inferiority complex", according to Trump.

Kevin McCarthy is incapable of disrespecting Donald Trump, said the former President.

The reason McCarthy wouldn't break ranks is simple, Trump told The New York Times reporters.

He told the reporters in an interview for This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future that therity complex. The excerpt was reported on Thursday.

The release of audiotapes in which the California GOP congressman can be heard talking harshly about Trump in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol has brought back McCarthy's fealty to the twice-impeached former president.

The media reported that he and Trump got into a yelling match as the Capitol was being overrun. Trump says that never happened because McCarthy wouldn't dare.

Trump told Martin and Burns that he wouldn't say that.

McCarthy ignored a request from the House select committee to discuss what he and Trump talked about on January 6.

A spokesman for McCarthy didn't respond to a request for comment about the latest Trump remark that the House GOP leader had an "inferiority complex".

McCarthy unloaded on Trump in calls days after the attack, declaring that what he did was unacceptable.

The fury faded quickly. McCarthy visited the private Mar-a-Lago club in South Florida to make nice and pose for awkward pictures with the former president.

McCarthy told a colleague that he didn't know they were going to take a picture.

Audio recordings released by the two New York Times reporters show that McCarthy contemplated pushing Trump to resign.

McCarthy told fellow top Republicans on January 10, 2021.

McCarthy denied ever telling Trump to resign after the audio of the call was released.

If the Republicans win back the majority in the upcoming elections, McCarthy will become the next speaker of the House. He also faces a split within his own party from the likes of Gaetz and Taylor.

Despite the recent revelations about McCarthy, Trump is not upset.

Trump recently told the Wall Street Journal that the leaked McCarthy call was a big compliment.

The House GOP seems to be behind McCarthy, giving the leader a standing ovation at a conference meeting on Wednesday.

There are so many important crises that we need to be stressing. The American people want answers. The Washington Post reported that a Republican congressman from Texas asked why gasoline was so high.

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