Stephan: We are coming to some kind of closure with Trump and January 6th, and because both the Republicans and the Democrats see this through the prism of politics for them above all else it’s like a chess game of power. And like chess a bad move several moves back can suddenly come back to haunt you. As I said at the time, I had to wonder, if McCarthy had made a short-term calculation mistake. It seemed very odd for the Republicans to take their party’s voice out of the game, when they have cultivated a special squad of flamers — Greene, Jordan, Hawley et al — to do as described in this piece, and just seen in the Brown Jackson hearing. Now we will see how it plays out. Let us all please hold the intention that integrity carries the day because how this commission’s outcome resolves will shape our country’s future
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 11, 2019. Credit: Win McNamee / Getty
WASHINGTON — House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy says he has no regrets about having Republicans boycott the special committee probing the Jan. 6 riot, dismissing the investigation as a political hit job.
“This is nothing but a political show,” McCarthy told NBC News in an interview last week just off the House floor. “They already have the report written and they’re trying to create a narrative for it instead of trying to get to the truth.”
But with the Jan. 6 committee preparing to shift next month from the investigative phase to public, televised hearings, McCarthy’s decision last summer to shun the panel will face perhaps its biggest test.
Unlike the first Trump impeachment hearings in 2019, loyalists of the former president will not be in a position to “run interference,” in the words of one GOP […]
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