Nancy Pelosi Must Nix Three Seditious Co-Conspirators From The House Select Committee To Investigate The January 6th Attack On The U.S. Capitol

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Traitor Kevin McCarthy made a pilgrimage to Bedminster, N.J. last week to get his marching orders from the leader of the MAG/QAnon seditious insurrection on January 6.

“Dear Leader” gave him the names of five sycophant supporters to nominate to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. This is another case of GQP jury rigging, just like occurred in the two Senate impeachment trials of “Dear Leader.”

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Any serious legitimate investigation into the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection on January 6 requires that one cannot allow the “Mafia Don” of the Trump crime family to nominate his “capos” to the committee investigating him and his criminal enterprise. This is a conflict of interest which gives the suspect a direct line of access to the information being investigated and the deliberations of the committee, so that these “capos” cam leak information, and allow the “Mafia Don” to destroy evidence and intimidate witnesses.

It is also a conflict of interest because three of Traitor McCarthy’s nominees are among the 147 Republican lawmakers who still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack, co-conspirators who provided aid and comfort to the violent seditions insurrectionists, making them subjects of the investigation. See, 18 U.S. Code § 2383:

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

The Associated Press reports, McCarthy proposes 5 Republicans to sit on Jan. 6 panel:

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has picked five Republicans to sit on the new select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, signaling that Republicans will participate in the investigation that they have staunchly opposed.

McCarthy said Monday that he has selected Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who recently visited former President Donald Trump on trips to the U.S.-Mexico border and Trump’s New Jersey golf club, to be the top Republican on the panel. The Republican leader also tapped Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, North Dakota Rep. Kelly Armstrong and Texas Rep. Troy Nehls to serve on the committee.

Here’s the key: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a veto over Traitor McCarthy’s bad faith nominees, and she must nix three seditious co-conspirators named by Traitor McCarthy:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must approve the names before they are final, per committee rules. An aide to Pelosi said she has received notification from McCarthy, but it is unclear when or if she will approve the GOP members. The aide was granted anonymity to discuss the Republican picks ahead of an official announcement.

The five Republican men selected by McCarthy have all backed Trump, whose supporters laid siege to the Capitol building on Jan. 6 and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. Banks, Jordan and Nehls all voted to overturn Biden’s win that day, even after the rioting. Davis and Armstrong were among the minority of Republicans who voted to certify Biden’s win.

McCarthy’s picks come after all but two Republicans opposed the creation of the 13-person select committee in a House vote last month, with most in the GOP arguing that the majority-Democratic panel would conduct a partisan probe. House Democrats originally attempted to create an evenly split, independent commission to investigate the insurrection, but that effort fell short when it was blocked by Senate Republicans.

Lawlessness and obstruction of justice are Republican trademarks.

House Republicans have largely remained loyal to Trump despite the violent insurrection of his supporters that sent many of them running for their lives.

[T]he members selected by McCarthy had mixed reactions to the insurrection as it happened on Jan. 6. While Jordan led the effort to overturn election results, others tweeted to the rioters to end the violence or condemned it.

“Thank you to the Capitol police and all law enforcement,” Armstrong tweeted shortly after the House was evacuated that afternoon. “Rioting is not protesting. This needs to stop. Now.”

Around the same time, Davis tweeted: “This is a sad day for our country. The lawlessness has got to stop. Protestors must leave the Capitol so Congress can resume the process of confirming the Electoral College vote.”

Nehls, a former sheriff, was one of several members who helped barricade the House doors as rioters tried to beat them down. He tweeted an Associated Press photo of himself holding the door alongside Capitol Police — face to face with rioters who had broken the glass in the entryway.

“I was proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with Capitol police barricading entrance to our sacred House chamber, while trying to calm the situation talking to protestors,” Nehls tweeted. “What I’m witnessing is a disgrace. We’re better than this. Violence is NEVER the answer. Law and order!”

A week later, all five members voted against the impeachment of Trump, who had told his supporters gathered in Washington on Jan. 6 to “fight like hell” to overturn his election defeat.

The Democratic chair of the select committee, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, said Monday evening that he hadn’t seen the GOP names but referred the matter to Pelosi. “It’s up to her,” he said.

Pelosi named eight members of the committee earlier this month — seven Democrats and Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who has strongly criticized Trump and has been the most outspoken member of her caucus against the insurrection. Cheney, who was demoted from GOP leadership in May over her comments, was one of the two Republicans who voted in favor of forming the committee, along with Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

Thompson has said that the committee will have a quorum to conduct business whether GOP members are present or not.

Huffington Post reports, Traitor Kevin McCarthy Trashed On Twitter For ‘O.J. Simpson’ Approach To Jan. 6 Probe:

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was called out on Monday for the five Republican lawmakers he tapped to sit on the select committee that will investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that was carried out by pro-Trump insurrectionists.

All five of the picks ― Reps. Jim Banks (Ind.) Jim Jordan (Ohio), Rodney Davis (Ill.), Kelly Armstrong (N.D.) and Troy Nehls (Texas) ― are, like McCarthy, allies of former President Donald Trump. Three of the five ― Banks, Jordan and Nehls ― voted against certifying the 2020 Electoral College votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania.

None voted to impeach Trump for his role in inciting the violence.

Jordan could even be called as a witness due to his links to Trump. During the attack itself, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) reportedly yelled at Jordan: “You fucking did this.”

Cheney will also serve on the 13-member committee, having been previously selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who will have final approval over McCarthy’s candidates.

Speaking on CNN, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described McCarthy’s choices as “insulting” and “shameful.”

“Kevin McCarthy has decided his role as a minority leader in the House of Representatives is to essentially be chauffeur of the clown car,” she told Don Lemon:

McCarthy’s choices were also widely panned by critics online:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must veto these three traitors to their country from the House Select Committee. Enough is enough.





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2 thoughts on “Nancy Pelosi Must Nix Three Seditious Co-Conspirators From The House Select Committee To Investigate The January 6th Attack On The U.S. Capitol”

  1. WTF? Don’t go soft on us now,Nancy. The Hill reports, “Pelosi weighing GOP picks for Jan. 6 probe”, https://thehill.com/homenews/house/563918-pelosi-weighing-gop-picks-for-jan-6-probe

    Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she has not yet accepted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) Republican picks for the Jan. 6 select committee.

    “I’m reviewing that,” she said Tuesday morning.

    But opening the door to McCarthy’s selections, Pelosi is also emphasizing that those lawmakers who voted in January to overturn President Trump’s election defeat would not be automatically disqualified from serving on the panel, as some Democrats in her caucus have argued should be the case.

    “I’m considering his proposals,” Pelosi told reporters later in the day. “But to be clear, how people voted on the president — affirming the election of Joe Biden — is not a criterion for service. That doesn’t matter.”

    Why the hell not? This should be a bright-line rule. We don’t allow criminal co-conspirators conduct investigations into their co-conspirators, or to sit on the jury.

  2. Once again Minority Leader McCarthy has demonstrated his spinelessness. All five nominees need to be rejected as they’ve demonstrated their extreme bias and therefore not qualified. If he believed it was in his political interest McCarthy wouldn’t have hesitated to place Usama bin Laden on the 9/11 Commission. Repukes will shriek & chew the carpet about bipartisanship but hardcore Repuke Liz Cheney is on the Committee so that threshold has already been met.

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