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U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, speaks to members of the media as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, right, listens after a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, May 12, 2021.

Two top Republicans in Congress, Sen.Mitch McConnelland Rep.Kevin McCarthy, expressed outrage over theattack on the U.S. Capitolon Jan. 6, 2021, and aboutDonald Trump’s conduct that day, according to a new book.

While McCarthy said on the floor of the House that the former president"bears responsibility"for the chaos that disrupted the certification of the 2020 election results, in private days after the deadly riot he went much further.

“I’ve had it with this guy,” McCarthy reportedly told fellow Republican leaders.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a legislation signing rally with local farmers on February 19, 2020

A representative for Rep. McCarthy didn’t respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment but his spokesman Mark Bednar told theTimes, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”

Some Republican lawmakers reportedly warned McCarthy that their conservative constituents would disapprove of blaming or confronting Trump.

Ohio Rep. Bill Johnson said voters in his district would “go ballistic,” theTimesreports. “I’m just telling you that that’s the kind of thing that we’re dealing with, with our base,” he said.

Meanwhile in the Senate, McConnell was reportedly furious at Trump after the attack and said, according to the book’s authors, “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a b— for us,” referring to a vote in the House toimpeachment the presidenta second time.

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US President Donald Trump gestures after arriving on Capitol Hill as US Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) look on in Washington, DC on March 10, 2020.

McConnell was also reportedly inclined to vote to convict Trump on the charge of incitement of insurrection. “If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is,” he said, according to theTimes.

But when the Senate acquitted Trump, McConnell was not one of seven Republicans who voted to convict.

Representatives for Sen. McConnell did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

McConnell’s apparent reversal on Trump can be attributed to politics, according to theTimes, which reports that he and McCarthy worried about voter backlash and opted to remain aligned with a majority of their Republican colleagues.

source: people.com