McCarthy denies report he wanted Trump to resign after Jan. 6

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said a report that he had planned to call on then-President Trump to resign after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was "totally false and wrong."

The New York Times, in an article published Thursday, detailed previously unreported anger at the president expressed by the House Republican leader and his Senate counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in the days after the attack. According to the piece — which is adapted from a forthcoming book by Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns — McCarthy told other Republican leaders, "I've had it with this guy." 

The report says that he also told other House Republican colleagues that Mr. Trump's behavior the day of the attack was "atrocious and totally wrong" and blamed him for the riots at the Capitol, and, with an impeachment resolution on the horizon from Democrats, he planned to tell the former president to resign.