Kevin McCarthy Is Obstructing Justice To Coverup The Crimes Of His GQP Coup Plotters Caucus

“Traitor” Kevin McCarthy, led 147 Republican lawmakers who still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack on January 6.

“Traitor” McCarthy and his staff fled for their lives on January 6, from Robert Draper’s book, “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind” at page 64 of the chapter entitled “The Enabler”:

“Well, Kevin,” President Trump said to McCarthy by phone shortly before three in the afternoon on January 6, “I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”

“More upset?” McCarthy yelled back incredulously, according to an account he gave a few hours later to a Republican colleague. “THEY’RE TRYING TO FUCKING KILL ME!”

“Traitor” McCarthy sold his soul to the GQP coup plotters caucus in order to become Speaker, insurrection co-conspirators who have tried to downplay the MAGA cult attempted coup d’état and their complicity in plotting the coup, and who have has floated wild conspiracy theories that January 6 was a false flag operation by the FBI or Antifa, and who have falsely portrayed the traitorous MAGA cult members who defiled the nation’s capitol as “political prisoners” and patriots.

This utter nonsense has been amplified and promoted by Fox News propagandists, in particular Tucker Carlson, a treasonous Putin-puppet propagandist if there ever was one.

The criminal trials of the traitorous MAGA cult members who laid siege to the Capitol are still ongoing, and the Capitol surveillance videos of the coup d’état, in which the defendants are identified, are critical evidence in these criminal trials.

But “Traitor” Kevin McCarthy, fulfilling a promise he made to the GQP coup plotters caucus to become Speaker, has turned over the Capitol surveillance videos – evidence in ongoing criminal trials – exclusively to the Fox News propaganda network. This jeopardizes the security operations of the Capitol,  jeopardizes tainting the jury pool, jeopardizes tainting the evidence in ongoing criminal trials – if not the outright destruction of evidence by FOX News – and allows the insurrection co-conspirators who have floated conspiracy theories that January 6 was a false flag operation by the FBI or Antifa, and who have falsely portrayed the traitorous MAGA cult members who defiled the nation’s capitol as “political prisoners” and patriots, to selectively edit portions of surveillance video in creating a false counter-narrative about January 6.

Remember Comrade Tucker Carlson’s three-part propaganda series called Patriot Purge? ‘Off the rails’: New Tucker Carlson project for Fox embraces conspiracy theories. This is going to be worse than that piece of crap.

Kevin McCarthy is a criminal who is actively engaged in obstruction of justice to coverup the crimes of his GQP coup plotters caucus co-conspirators.  He is unfit to be Speaker of the House. He should be charged and prosecuted for his crimes, alongside the GQP coup plotters co-conspirators.

The New York Times reports, In Sharing Video With Fox Host, McCarthy Hits Rewind on Jan. 6:

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to grant the Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to thousands of hours of security footage from inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was his latest move to appease the right wing of his party, this time by effectively outsourcing a bid to reinvestigate the riot to its favorite cable news commentator, who has circulated conspiracy theories about the assault.

The most conservative Republican members of Congress — many of whom have worked to downplay or deny the reality of the Jan. 6 attack — have been pushing Mr. McCarthy for weeks to release the video after he promised to do so during his campaign for speaker.

Mr. McCarthy has shown little appetite for the kind of aggressive public re-litigation of what happened that day that some of his colleagues have called for, but he is sensitive to the dangers of angering his hard-core base by seeming to drop or disregard the matter.

That is where Mr. Carlson comes in.

“I promised,” Mr. McCarthy said on Wednesday in a brief phone interview in which he defended his decision to grant Mr. Carlson exclusive access to the more than 40,000 hours of security footage. “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.”

Still, the sunshine Mr. McCarthy referred to will, for now, be filtered through a very specific prism — that of Mr. Carlson, a hero of the hard right who has insinuated without evidence that the Jan. 6 attack was a “false flag” operation carried out by the government.

After Mr. Carlson has had his way with the video, Mr. McCarthy said he planned to make the footage more widely available. His team has had internal conversations about providing the footage to other media outlets after Mr. Carlson has had his “exclusive” first airing, according to a source familiar with the deliberations who insisted on anonymity to speak about them.

For now, however, Mr. McCarthy has given a large head start to a purveyor of conspiracy theories about the attack.

Mr. Carlson declined on Wednesday to comment on his review of the tapes, except to say that he and a large team of staff members looking at the footage were “taking it very seriously.”

Democrats have revolted at Mr. McCarthy’s decision, arguing that it is a politically driven move that risks the security of the Capitol.

In a letter to fellow Democrats on Wednesday, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said the speaker was “needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9/11.”

“By handpicking Tucker Carlson, Speaker McCarthy laid bare that this sham is simply about pandering to MAGA election deniers, not the truth,” Mr. Schumer wrote. “Tucker Carlson has no fidelity to the truth or facts and has used his platform to promote the Big Lie, distort reality and espouse bogus conspiracy theories about Jan. 6.”

Some Republicans, too, said Mr. McCarthy was taking a political risk with his decision. Should Mr. Carlson use the video — through selective editing — to further false narratives, it could supercharge the appetite in the right-wing base for the continued re-litigation of Jan. 6. That could force the issue onto the agenda of more House Republicans, a move that is likely to turn off swing voters.

“It helps McCarthy solidify his speakership among the right, especially those who held their vote out,” said Ron Bonjean, a veteran Republican strategist. “It shows to conservatives that he’s providing complete transparency, and that’s what Republicans have wanted for a long time. That said, if the footage is misused in some way, this could end up generating another black hole for Republicans on Jan. 6. It could cause Republicans to be wrapped around that issue, and to look backward, not forward, toward getting things done.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor “Q” Greene, Republican of Georgia, has portrayed the treatment of Jan. 6 prisoners as a civil rights atrocity and demanded the release of security footage that could exonerate them. But Mr. McCarthy has not shown the same passion as his right flank for re-examining Jan. 6 — an issue that some of his advisers view as a political loser — and, thus far, he has had little interest in dedicating limited staff resources to doing so.

He set up no select committee to investigate the events surrounding the Capitol breach, though he warned the House Jan. 6 panel last year to preserve its files. He has signaled interest in exploring one avenue, saying that the House select committee that investigated the attack during the last Congress ignored the security failures that allowed the Capitol to be breached. He appointed Representative Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, a Republican he views as being unfairly maligned by the Jan. 6 panel, as the chairman of a House Administration subcommittee tasked with investigating the matter.

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Former Representative Rodney Davis of Illinois, who as the top Republican on the Administration Committee during the last Congress watched hours of the footage, said he had pushed for it to be released to refute what he called Democrats’ “lies” that Republicans had given tours of the Capitol to rioters in advance.

He dismissed concerns that releasing the footage would endanger Capitol security, citing the Jan. 6 committee’s depiction of the evacuation of Vice President Mike Pence and others during the assault.

Mr. Davis also said there was nothing particularly surprising in the footage he reviewed, which showed the attack on the Capitol largely as it is widely understood to have transpired.

“The Capitol came under attack,” Mr. Davis said. “The brave men and women of the Capitol Police fought back. Hopefully, those who broke the law that day are held accountable.”

Still, Democrats said the move was deeply irresponsible, warning that Mr. McCarthy was granting access to sensitive video of escape routes, security camera angles and logistics at the Capitol.

“We have tremendous security concerns about what’s happening and we want to know what rules are in place for the viewing of this material, which goes right to the heart of how we protect the Capitol and our staffs,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, who was a member of the now-defunct Jan. 6 committee. “We want to make sure we are not giving a blueprint for attacking the Capitol.”