The course of U.S. history would've changed had the recorder of this conversation released it a year ago. (Image via video still)

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught on audio saying, on January 10, that he planned to ask Trump to resign over the January 6 insurrection that Trump fueled.

This call was January 10, 2021.

It is incredible how quickly top Republicans went from secretly planning to get rid of Trump — because it was the right thing to do — to realizing the political environment was such that they could simply let it ride and would glean benefits and take no hits over Trump's plot to toss out a fair election's results.

Caught red-handed consorting with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) on this call, McCarthy will now never, ever be Speaker of the House if Republicans retake that body. Just think — he was dealing with Cheney and on the same page with her, and weeks later, he was having her stripped of her duties over her lack of allegiance to Trumpism.

Listen:

BREAKING: Audio recording contradicts Rep. Kevin McCarthy's denial that he said he would call Donald Trump to recommend that Trump resign pic.twitter.com/iRmSFoeQPz

— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 22, 2022

P.S. Sitting on this audio in order to sell books is disgusting.