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Pelosi will ask anti-Trump Republican Kinzinger to join 6 January panel - The Guardian

Pelosi will ask anti-Trump Republican Kinzinger to join 6 January panel - The Guardian

Jul 25, 2021 1 min, 25 secs

The speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelosi, has appointed a second anti-Trump Republican to the select committee which will investigate the deadly 6 January assault on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.

After the Republican House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, named Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the panel, Pelosi rejected them as prominent allies of Donald Trump, the subject of the committee’s work.

Pelosi said Kinzinger “and other Republicans have expressed an interest to serve on the select committee.

Asked about Republican charges that her rejection of Jordan and Banks worsened political divisions, Pelosi said: “This was not just any day of the week.

Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Banks, from Indiana, said: “It’s clear that Pelosi only wants members on this committee who will stick to her talking points and stick to her narrative.

Later that day, after rioters died and police officers were injured while protesters looked for lawmakers to capture and kill, Banks and Jordan went ahead with objections to results from Arizona and Pennsylvania.

On Fox News Sunday, Banks was not asked about those claims, his support for them or how they fuelled the Capitol attack.

Elsewhere, a Republican senator who voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol attack and also backed an independent commission to investigate it repeated the talking point used by Banks: that Democrats want the House committee to “drive a political message”.

Toomey was asked if refusing to support a committee to investigate the actions of supporters of a Republican president might reflect badly on the party

“No,” he said, “I think it is it is constant reminder about a terrible episode in our history, which Donald Trump was at the heart of.”

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