In the leaked audio of the Jan. 10 phone call, first posted Thursday by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, McCarthy is heard saying he would advise Trump to resign. In a follow up audio release from a Republican conference call on Jan. 11, McCarthy is heard saying: “I asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened? Trump told the WSJ that the California Republican had not personally advised him to quit in the days after Jan. 6. “I would be highly surprised if President Trump allowed these left-of-center journalists and pundits to gain a victory by engaging in this warfare,” Jason Miller, a former Trump spokesperson, told POLITICO. Trump this week endorsed Ohio senate candidate JD Vance, despite the author’s public criticism of then-candidate Trump in the 2016 presidential race.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 23, 2022 12:07 UTC