Rather than urge her to vote no, McCarthy effectively treated the meeting as a therapy session, telling her the truth about Trump’s contemptuous disregard for the Capitol, knowing it would likely lead her to vote to impeach. 6 phone call when she approached the GOP leader for counsel about her vote on Trump’s second impeachment. Herrera Beutler learned of McCarthy’s account of the Jan. Other new details from the book’s account of McCarthy’s post-Jan. McCarthy and Herrera Beutler disputed the account in a joint statement to the Post, calling it “dramatized to fit an on-screen adaptation, not to serve as a document of record.” But the authors are standing by their reporting, which they source to a person with first-hand knowledge of the argument and to multiple lawmakers whom McCarthy told about the meeting. Herrera Beutler, who had considered McCarthy something of a big-brother figure, defended herself: “What did you want me to do? Lie?” she told him. “After all the work I have done for you! … I alone am taking all the heat to protect people from Trump! I alone am holding the party together! I have been working with Trump to keep him from going after Republicans like you and blowing up the party and destroying all our work! … You should have come to me! Why did you go to the press? This is no way to thank me!” “After all the work I have done for the Republican Party, the money I have raised!” McCarthy seethed at Herrera Beutler in the meeting in his office. McCarthy, now eager to get back into Trump’s good graces, took his frustration out on Herrera Beutler, whom he’d once considered a friend. 6 call with Trump that he made the Washington Republican burst into tears.Īt the time of their private meeting, Trump was still furious with McCarthy for allowing their Jan. JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER (R-Wash.) for going public about his Jan. Two weeks after Trump’s second acquittal, McCarthy yelled so forcefully at Rep. TRUMP-McCARTHY PHONE CALL FALLOUT, CONT’D - The latest scoop from Playbook’s own Rachael Bade and co-author Karoun Demirjian appears in The Washington Post today, sourced from their new book, “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump” ( $28), also on sale Oct. I don't recall if he met him, but he talked about him a lot in our early twenties." “THEY'RE TRYING TO FUCKING KILL ME!”ĭraper also reports on the history of the McCarthy-Trump relationship, including McCarthy’s youthful fascination with Trump - long before he ever knew the future president.īack in 2011, Draper interviewed a friend of McCarthy from his hometown Bakersfield, Calif., who told Draper, “One person that he always talked about back then was Donald Trump. “More upset?” McCarthy yelled back incredulously, according to an account he gave a few hours later to a Republican colleague. “Well, Kevin,” President Trump said to McCarthy by phone shortly before three in the afternoon on January 6, “I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” From page 64 of the chapter entitled “The Enabler”: But Draper adds a dramatic and newsworthy new detail about the House GOP leader’s side of the conversation, one that makes his later submission to Trump even more undignifying. It’s been widely reported that DONALD TRUMP and KEVIN McCARTHY had a fiery exchange on Jan. WHAT McCARTHY TOLD TRUMP - This morning we have the first scoop from Robert Draper’s latest book, “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind" ( $29), which will be released Oct. Enough is enough.” More from Andrew Desiderio and Connor O’Brien, who broke the news As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I will not green-light any cooperation with Riyadh until the Kingdom reassesses its position with respect to the war in Ukraine. BOB MENENDEZ (D-N.J.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “The United States must immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including any arms sales and security cooperation beyond what is absolutely necessary to defend U.S. TOUGH NEW STATEMENT ON SAUDI ARABIA - Sen. Don't expect a blowout birthday bash.” ( ANDREW BATES: “I don’t have a comment about whether POLITICO is invited to his birthday.” Please circle back on that, Bates!) | Alex Wong/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAYĭON’T MISS - Jonathan Lemire on the sensitivities around JOE BIDEN becoming the first presidential octogenarian on Nov. But Robert Draper in his new book adds a dramatic new detail about the House GOP leader’s side of the conversation. It’s been widely reported that Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy had a fiery exchange on Jan.
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