Kevin McCarthy Sets Himself Up For A Subpoena By Refusing To Cooperate

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made a bogus statement that the 1/6 Committee is illegitimate and acceptable himself up to beryllium subpoenaed.

McCarthy said successful a statement:

This committee is not conducting a morganatic probe arsenic Speaker Pelosi took the unprecedented enactment of rejecting the Republican members I named to service connected the committee. It is not serving immoderate legislative purpose. The committee’s lone nonsubjective is to effort to harm its governmental opponents – acting similar the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee 1 time and the DOJ the next. 

The committee has demanded grounds from staffers who applied for First Amendment permits. It has subpoenaed the telephone records of backstage citizens and their fiscal records from banks portion demanding secrecy not supported by law. It has lied astir the contents of documents it has received. It has held individuals successful contempt of Congress for exercising their Constitutional close to avail themselves of judicial proceedings. And present it wants to interrogation maine astir nationalist statements that person been shared with the world, and backstage conversations not remotely related to the unit that unfolded astatine the Capitol. I person thing other to add.

As a typical and the person of the number party, it is with neither regret nor restitution that I person concluded to not enactment with this prime committee’s maltreatment of powerfulness that stains this instauration contiguous and volition harm it going forward.

McCarthy is lying. He knows precise good that the committee is legitimate. Kevin McCarthy walked distant from the committee and pulled his nominees, truthful his blasted of Speaker Pelosi is absurd.

Kevin McCarthy is mounting himself up to beryllium subpoenaed. He is gambling that the committee won’t travel done and subpoena the Minority Leader. Still, the committee has bully crushed to judge that McCarthy has important information. If helium doesn’t travel guardant voluntarily, the committee whitethorn person nary different prime but to compel his testimony.