As we’ve now heard from leaked calls, not only did House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy say he was going to call Trump after the Jan. 6th attack and ask him to resign, but he also talked about triggering the 25th Amendment. (The law is the last resort to removing a President immediately, usually invoked if the leader of the free world is incapacitated.)
Now Republican McCarthy has denied any of this but it’s all on the call.
On the same call, McCarthy also said that he wanted to reach out to then-President-elect Joe Biden as he expressed hope for a “smooth transition,” and said he thought impeachment would further divide the nation.
The call took place on January 8, 2021, and the audio was obtained for the new book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
Here’s McCarthy denying the revelations on the call:
“I have never asked the President to resign. I never thought he should resign,” McCarthy saidwhen pressed on whether he had believed at any point that Trump should resign. “What I was asked on a phone call was about the process, the 25th Amendment, whether someone was impeached. We walked through ifs, ands and buts. It was never in the process to ask Trump to resign.”