More blowback please

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of his GOP conference on a call Monday that the riot at the Capitol was not caused by antifa, urging lawmakers not to further spread misinformation about the pro-Trump mob that stormed the House and Senate last week.

“McCarthy told all members on the call that he has been receiving FBI briefings and it is clear that antifa was not behind this,” one source familiar with the call said. “That it was in fact right-wing extremists and QAnon adherents, and he urged members to stop spreading false information to the contrary.”

  The Hill

McCarthy must be afraid of serious blowback, but it's a certainty that MAGAts aren't. They won't believe him. I'm not even sure they'd believe Trump if he told them the same thing, which he won't.

McCarthy’s comments come in the wake of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who made the unsubstantiated claim on the House floor that antifa was behind the violence that broke out at the Capitol on Wednesday after the riot took place in an attempt to delay the official count of Electoral College votes.

Other GOP lawmakers, including Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), doubled down on the claim on Twitter.

"Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics," Brooks wrote at the start of a Twitter thread the day after the riot.

Shameless. They should be run out of town.

McCarthy told his members it was determined to be right-wing extremists and supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which revolves around the idea that President Trump is working to expose an elite group of Democrats and media who are running an international child trafficking ring and controlling the government to try to undermine the president.

The FBI said on Friday that it determined that no members of the left-wing movement antifa were involved in the storming of the Capitol.

Clearly a smarter group than the MAGAt insurrectionists.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) has been removed from an advisory committee to Harvard University's Institute of Politics as a result of her peddling false claims about voter fraud, the school announced on Tuesday.

"Over the past several days, [director] Mark Gearan and I have spent a good deal of time considering the role at the Institute of Politics of our colleague Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, whom I have included in this message," dean Douglas Elmendorf wrote to the committee. "Mark and I have read public materials, listened to students and alumni, and consulted with colleagues at Harvard on this important matter."

So sad. She was well on her way to being a bright star in the Trump orbit after the first impeachment.

Elmendorf asked Stefanik to resign from the advisory committee, which he said she refused to do.

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After the riots, hundreds of Harvard students, faculty and alumni petitioned the school's Institute of Politics to disaffiliate with the congresswoman from New York's north country who graduated from Harvard in 2006.

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"My request was not about political parties, political ideology, or her choice of candidate for president. Rather, in my assessment, Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence, and she has made public statements about court actions related to the election that are incorrect," Elmendorf said. "Moreover, these assertions and statements do not reflect policy disagreements but bear on the foundations of the electoral process through which this country’s leaders are chosen."

In a statement to The Hill, Stefanik said the decision to remove her from the committee shows a willingness from Harvard to "cower and cave to the woke Left."

The evergreen excuse. 

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.