Axios, last May: GOP leaders feared that Evan McMullin might have more tapes like the Ryan tape

Remember Paul Ryan's damning taped conversation at the RNC convention?

When a WA Post reporter told Ryan the reporter knew about the conversation -- during which Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan talked about Russian money -- Ryan said that the conversation didn't happen and the transcript was fake . . . until the reporter finally told Ryan that he had actually listened to it.

Then Ryan said it was just a joke.

Last May Axios reported that there might be more tapes, and that some Republicans think Evan McMullin (who ran against DT in the primaries) might be the one who leaked this one to the Post.

If this is true, no wonder most Republicans have been supporting the loathsome DT to the bitter, bitter end.

https://www.axios.com/house-leaders-worry-more-meetings-secretly-recorded-1513302419-64da13f3-8275-42da-b7f3-6ef3ef7d297a.html

House leaders worry more meetings secretly recorded

House Republican leadership is agitated after the Washington Post published a transcript from a secret recording of one of the inner-sanctum conversations in the office of Speaker Paul Ryan.

The transcript shows House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy joking with his colleagues that then-candidate Trump and California Republican Dana Rohrabacher were both on the payroll of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Behind-the-scenes: House leadership sources have pored over the article and are privately discussing theories about where the leak came from:

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Evidence or not, leadership sources are privately worried that McMullin had a tape on while he sat silently through all of their confidential meetings. They're concerned about what leaks could come next.