Bear in mind final yr when Home GOP Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy suddenly turned against the bipartisan Jan. 6 fee he had deputized considered one of his personal members to barter?
Proper. Now McCarthy is amongst 5 sitting Republican Home members who have been subpoenaed by the choose committee investigating Jan. 6:
- Kevin McCarthy of California
- Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
- Jim Jordan of Ohio
- Andy Biggs of Arizona
- Mo Brooks of Alabama
These characterize the primary publicly recognized sitting members of Congress to be subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 panel in what’s an unprecedented move.
In January, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson of Mississippi sent McCarthy a letter indicating the committee needed to interview him about his discussions with Donald Trump and different White Home staffers surrounding the Jan. 6 rebel.
McCarthy flatly rejected the invitation, calling it an “abuse of energy.”
The subpoenaed members—all Trump henchmen—will nearly definitely file authorized challenges in response.
It is fairly a forged of characters: Brooks has bragged about carrying physique armor throughout his speech to the Jan. 6 MAGA crowd; Jordan has had various mind malfunctions surrounding his conversations with Trump on Jan. 6 (to not point out some attention-grabbing textual content exchanges with then-White Home Chief of Workers Mark Meadows); and McCarthy has recently been heard in recordings with GOP leaders to have mentioned invoking the twenty fifth Modification to take away Trump from workplace.
Absolutely that’s simply the tip of the iceberg, and committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming possible knew quite a bit about the remainder of that iceberg even earlier than the investigation proceeded.
