It took all of three weeks for the GOP to change its mind about digging into the legitimacy of the Jan. 6 investigation. (via MaddowBlog)
Despite pressure from far-right figures, and even signals from leadership and members inside the Republican caucus, incoming chairs of the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee told ABC News they are more focused on probes into COVID-19 funding, the border, and President Joe Biden’s family rather than relitigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol or investigating the investigators.
Asked specifically about his Jan. 6 interest, Comer added, “Right now, that’s not anywhere on my list.”, and given the fact that the president’s son has nothing to do with the Jan. 6 attack or Team Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of an election, it stands to reason that the House Oversight Committee would focus its attention elsewhere, McCarthy’s theatrics notwithstanding.
Quite right. The dirty little secret on Capitol Hill is that Democrats heard about GOP efforts to investigate the investigation, and they didn’t mind in the slightest. The more Republicans talked about the attack, the scrutiny of who was responsible for the assault, and the voluminous evidence compiled by congressional investigators, the better.
McCarthy wanted to spend parts of next year reviewing the committee and its efforts? Democrats weren’t intimidated by that idea; theyThat said, as the Jan. 6 committee prepares to unveil its final report later today, we apparently haven’t heard the last word from Republicans on the subject: The far-right GOP members who were originally slated to participate in the investigation
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