Washington, Apr 22 (AP) House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to an audio recording posted Thursday night by The New York Times. The Times reported that the audio was a recording of a January 10 conversation among House GOP leaders in which they discussed the Democratic effort to impeach Trump. Instead, McCarthy has cozied up to Trump, visiting him at the former president's Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago. The Times report Thursday was adapted from an upcoming book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future,” by Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow aired clips of the conversation on her program Thursday night.

Source: International New York Times April 22, 2022 04:02 UTC