House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy brushed off a recent book excerpt from a pair of New York Times reporters describing interactions with former President Donald Trump in the aftermath of Jan. 6.

After the California Republican scolded Trump in what turned out to be a leaked phone call in which he criticized the former president, Trump told authors Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns he thinks he has an “inferiority complex.”

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