The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot on Wednesday asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for his voluntary cooperation, a sign that the …
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot on Wednesday asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for his voluntary cooperation, a sign that the probe is increasingly touching some of the most powerful figures in the Republican Party. «You have acknowledged speaking directly with the former President while the violence was underway on January 6th. And you summarized your conclusions regarding President Trump’s conduct on January 6th in a speech you made January 13th on the House floor,» the committee wrote in a letter to McCarthy. McCarthy said on the House floor just days after the riot that Trump bore «responsibility» for the attack on the Capitol. He also briefly suggested that Trump should be censured for his actions before Democrats moved to impeach the president for a second time. It’s not entirely clear what Trump told McCarthy as rioters were ransacking the Capitol. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, cited what McCarthy told her about the call in her decision to vote to impeach the president.
