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Liz Cheney denies recording a bombshell tape of Kevin McCarthy advising Trump
Rep. Liz Cheney denied recording or leaking audio from a phone call in which House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to say he would tell then-President Donald Trump to resign following the January 6 Capitol riot...
Updated: 49 months ago2 min read
Cheney is one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.
Rep. Liz Cheney denied recording or leaking audio from a phone call in which House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to say he would tell then-President Donald Trump to resign following the January 6 Capitol riot.
A portion of that call, dated January 10, 2021, aired on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show." McCarthy had earlier denied saying he would tell Trump to resign.
The California Republican can be heard telling Cheney, R-Wyo., in the audio clip that he believed Trump would be impeached in the House and possibly convicted in the Senate following the January 6 riot.
"The only conversation I would have with him is that I believe this will pass, and it is my recommendation that you resign," McCarthy said, according to the recording.
Later in the day, on Friday, news outlets aired a separate audio clip of McCarthy from January 11, 2021. McCarthy tells top House Republicans in it that Trump has admitted some responsibility for the Capitol riot.
"What he did was abhorrent. But, according to the most recent recording, nobody can and should defend that," McCarthy said.
The remarks came days after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and disrupted lawmakers' confirmation of President Joe Biden's victory, fueled by the then-false president's claims that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 election.
Cheney's spokesperson said in a statement Friday morning that the congresswoman "did not record or leak the tape also does not know how the reporters got it." Cheney is one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.
"The select committee has asked Kevin McCarthy to speak with us about these events, though he has declined," said a spokesperson.
McCarthy's spokesman did not immediately respond to news request for comment. The spokesman also did not directly explain the discrepancy between McCarthy's recorded remarks and a previous statement from McCarthy's office denying that McCarthy said he would push Trump to resign.
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