McCarthy reportedly inquired about the viability of using the 25th Amendment.
According to Martin and Burns, the Bakersfield Republican plotted to remove former President Donald Trump from office after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, telling colleagues, “I’ve had it with this guy."
McCarthy reportedly told other House Republicans on a Jan. 8 phone call that Trump's conduct leading up to the riots was"atrocious and totally wrong," and inquired about the viability of using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. On a subsequent call on Jan. 10, McCarthy reportedly told his colleagues that he would press Trump to resign once Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives. During that call, he also reportedly clamored for Twitter and Facebook to remove the social media accounts of House Republicans such as Rep. Lauren Boebert over posts they made leading up to Jan. 6.
“We can’t put up with that,” McCarthy reportedly said. “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?” However, Burns and Martin report that after the next few days revealed that Trump still maintained an iron grip on the party's base, McCarthy backed off of his plans to push for Trump's removal. A McCarthy spokesperson denied that McCarthy even plotted Trump's removal in the first place.
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