Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls House Minority Leader McCarthy ‘a liar and a traitor’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) lashed out at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday calling him a “liar and a traitor” after audio confirmed that McCarthy did say he wanted then-President Donald Trump to resign following the Jan. 6th, 2021, Capitol riot, a stance he denied having.

“I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign,” McCarthy explained what he would tell Trump in the Jan. 10th, 2021 audio recording published Thursday by the Times, referring to the impeachment resolution.

McCarthy also called Trump’s actions on Jan. 6th “atrocious and totally wrong” in a Jan. 8 call with Republicans, and reportedly floated the idea of getting certain lawmakers banned from social media, according to the Times’ report.

“Kevin McCarthy is a liar and a traitor. This is outrageous. And that is really the illness that pervades the Republican leadership right now. That they say one thing to the American public and something else in private,” Warren said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“They understand that it is wrong what happened, an attempt to overthrow our government. And that the Republicans instead want to continue to try to figure out how to make the 2020 election different, instead of spending their energy on how it is that we go forward in order to build an economy, in order to make this country work better for the people who sent us to Washington,” she went on, adding, “Shame on Kevin McCarthy.”

McCarthy rebutted the Times reporting as “totally false and wrong” in a Twitter statement released hours before the recordings were published.

McCarthy and Trump reportedly spoke on the phone after the audio leaked and remain on good terms, a source with knowledge of the conversation confirmed to Fox News Digital.