GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy says he will not voluntarily cooperate with the House select committee's probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
WASHINGTON -- GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy says he will not voluntarily cooperate with the House select committee's probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Chairman Bennie Thompson said in the letter that he believes McCarthy has relevant information that could speak into the facts, circumstances, and causes leading to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack."You have acknowledged speaking directly with the former President while the violence was underway on January 6th," Thompson writes.
In the last few weeks, GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Scott Perry were also contacted by the select committee but they denied the requests to sit down for an interview or to provide documents. The panel has not ruled out trying to compel their testimony. Notably, the committee believes McCarthy can speak to Trump's"state of mind" leading up to, during and after the Capitol riot.
A year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the lawmakers who were trapped in the upper House balcony that day are still recovering from lingering trauma. The letter also points to McCarthy's visit to Trump at Mar-a-Lago as a potential read into Trump's state of mind. The meeting took place shortly before the commencement of his impeachment trial in the Senate.
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