Surely they didn't expect any other response. So now what will they do?House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says he won't participate in the Democratic-led Jan. 6 select committee's request for him to testify.
The panel on Wednesday asked that McCarthy voluntarily provide information about events leading up to, during and after the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump supporters a little over a year ago.
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On the eve of the vote in Trump's Senate impeachment trial last year, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., said that McCarthy had told her of a conversation he had with the then-president on Jan. 6 in which Trump appeared to side with the mob, allegedly telling the Republican leader that the rioters appeared "more upset about the election than you are."
The committee is also looking for information about Trump's decisions in the days following the attack.
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McCarthy has previously criticized the panel as a Democratic-led partisan exercise. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., denied some of McCarthy's nominees to the committee last year, leading the Republican to pull all of his picks.
McCarthy brought up Pelosi's move in his statement Wednesday night.
The minority leader is the third sitting member of the House GOP the panel has sought voluntary testimony from, following Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Jim Jordan of Ohio. Both Perry and Jordan have also rejected the requests.
NPR
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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