1/6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson Nails Home Republicans For Being Concerned In Capitol Assault

1/6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson mentioned they’d discovered proof of Home Republican involvement within the Capitol assault.

The 1/6 Committee Has Proof Of Home Republican Involvement In Trump’s Capitol Assault

Video of Chairman Thompson on ABC’s This Week:

Transcript via ABC’s This Week:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Any proof that you’ve come throughout that a few of your fellow members of Congress could also be culpable?

THOMPSON: Nicely, we’re within the strategy of attending to that.

As , we now have requested two members of Congress to voluntarily come earlier than our committee. We’ll most likely be asking some extra to come back. Former member and chief of workers of former President Donald Trump gave us over 9,000 pages of paperwork we now have been going by means of . We’re taking a look at what occurred on January 6.

Extra particularly, in these paperwork, there’s communication between a few of these members and the White Home, particularly asking them to — asking Chief of Employees Meadows to get the president to name off this riot or riot.

So, there’s some involvement. We simply wish to be sure that we unravel it, and we produce a report that may be considered with integrity and accuracy by the American individuals.

Home Republicans Have been Concerned In The 1/6 Assault/Trump’s Coup

It has lengthy been suspected primarily based on the conduct of Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy down by means of Home Republicans like Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene that they had been probably concerned within the assault.

Republicans are so guilty that they have released a propaganda video that mentions nothing about the 1/6 attack.

Home Republicans have spent daily for practically a 12 months making an attempt to discredit the investigation as a result of they don’t need the Choose Committee to disclose their function in Trump’s coup.

The occasions of 1/6 are being revealed as a coordinated plot to overturn an election. Trump was the hub, however the plot prolonged all through authorities and past.

Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation