“I’ve had it with this guy,” McCarthy told fellow GOP leaders days after the attack, according to the report. With Democrats moving forward with plans to impeach Trump for a second time, McCarthy reportedly said he planned to call the president and tell him, “I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign.”
A McCarthy spokesman told the newspaper that the California Republican “never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”
In a statement Thursday, McCarthy called the Times’s reporting “totally false and wrong” and accused the news media of “doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda.”
