Trump defender Kevin McCarthy tells January 6th Committee that evidence 'does not belong to you'

[LenaBaby61]

House Minority Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy in an angry letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) warned the Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that his role will end on January 3 and it is “imperative that all information collected be preserved.” The California Republican congressman had a dramatically different position on Donald Trump‘s unlawful retention of well over ten thousand items from the White House, including at least 300 documents with classified markings, including some classified at the highest levels.

McCarthy, who is running to be Speaker of the House but is facing strong opposition from some of the GOP caucus, nevertheless is acting as if he will wield the gavel.

His letter, angry and accusatory in tone, also strongly suggests Republicans will hold their own hearings on the January 6 attack on the Capitol and on democracy, but with a vastly different focus.

“The American people chose Republicans to lead the 118th Congress,” McCarthy’s letter begins. “On January 3, 2023, your work as Chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol will come to an end,” McCarthy told Thompson in his letter, which was reported on by CBS News.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-defender-kevin-mccarthy-tells-january-6th-committee-that-evidence-does-not-belong-to-you/ar-AA14KZ7Q?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4ebe1d96a53a4fa997b6b3b80d24429f

[Fullduplexxx]

1. But they didn't. The cons won a very slim majority thru gerrymandering

Otherwise you aholes wouldn't have win anything

[moonscape]

9. Gerrymandering aside, I thought I read here that the elected

Republicans in midterms actually got more votes than the elected Democrats. Is that not true?

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Im not sure but the cons didn't win the Senate and barely won the house

And if it weren't for gerrymandering they wouldn't have won that either so I do t think the statement he made about the American people elected the republican party to run things is very accurate

[W_HAMILTON]

15. A lot of Republicans ran unopposed. Just looking at the map and picking a few random ones out...

AL-06: 154k votes

AZ-08: 198k votes
AZ-09: 193k votes

FL-06: 227k votes
FL-18: 167k votes

LA-06: 205k votes

ND-AL: 148k votes

SC-03: 190k votes
SC-04: 166k votes

SD-AL: 254k votes

TX-06: 149k votes
TX-11: 151k votes
TX-19: 152k votes
TX-25: 185k votes
TX-26: 184k votes
TX-31: 183k votes

WI-06: 239k votes

That may not be all of them, just the ones I could pick out by using this site (https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-house-vote-tracker/2022). The total vote count above is around 3,145k votes, which is almost exactly the current differential in the popular vote (3,154k). Of course, a lot of these seats are very red and the Republicans most likely would have won them overwhelmingly even if a Democrat were running against them, but it skews the popular vote total quite a bit when there are so many uncontested races.

[moonscape]

20. Ah, thanks. Makes sense now.

[ITAL]

23. Democrats also had a few unopposed

I think when I looked it up there were half a dozen races that were either unopposed or had two democrats running against each other (in California). So even taking the unopposed figures into consideration the GOP got more legitimate votes.

[W_HAMILTON]

30. That's the jungle primary rules in California.

If there were two Democrats running there, that is because Republicans didn't have enough support to make the top two.

And can you list out most of the races where Democrats were running unopposed? Because I scoured a few states and didn't see any. Again, I don't consider California's jungle primary system including two Democrats to be "running unopposed" because odds are that there were Republicans running, but they just didn't have enough support to make the top two per the electoral system in place there. That's far different than actually running unopposed.

EDIT: Probably the fairest way to judge this is to determine the total number of votes Republicans/Democrats received and then divide them by the total number of Republican/Democratic candidates. If there were an easy way to see this race-by-race, I might look into doing that...

[Demsrule86]

18. Not exactly. They gerrymander and suppress the vote as well...scum of the earth.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. They Did

Around 4%. IIRC, 52 to 48.

[krawhitham]

21. gerrymandering?? Dems got 47.8% of all votes for House, but got 48.9% of the seats

Just saying



https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-house-vote-tracker/2022

[dem4decades]

2. The Committee should ask Kevin who took his spine.

[Zorro]

27. Reporters should ask Kevin why he refused to testify before the J6 committee

[dem4decades]

33. Reporters are spineless too, afraid Kevin won't give them access in the future.

[onecaliberal]

3. Give it all to the senate so they can continue doing he investigation.

They’re still interviewing people which makes me think they’ve got a plan. Kevin has no right to the documents that belong to the archives.

[chriscan64]

4. Just to be clear.

When a branch of the government produces documents, and the leadership of that branch changes after an election, the documents belong to the government under the control of the new leadership, right? Asking for an enemy.

[tishaLA]

5. Rep Schiff said the committee would release EVERYTHING

except scrubbing some personal info, etc. So sure Kev can have it along with all the rest of us.

[claudette]

6. I'm sure that

every member of that Committee will retain a copy of ALL the testimony and documents for him/herself, after publishing it for everyone!

[sakabatou]

7. Is he asking to be charged with obstruction of justice?

[Drum]

8. Nor you, Kevin. n/t

[Cha]

10. Wrong, Asshole. Nt

[Justice]

11. Dems announce they are releasing all of the evidence to the public before Jan 3

Why is McCarthy suggesting otherwise?

[agingdem]

13. the snarky little dumbass

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is performing for his MAGA base..he's obviously scared shitless..I suspect he and his MAGA buffoons just might have few paragraphs in the J6 report "devoted" to their participation in the plot to overthrow the government...does' ol' Kevin think his ridiculous "be afraid/be very afraid" screed is going to intimidate Bennie Thompson?....Kevin McCarthy, Donald Trump's dancing monkey...pathetic...

[panader0]

17. Dems say they will release evidence, then Mc Carthy demands it and can claim he made it happen.

[Docreed2003]

14. Well, you're 💩 out of luck Kev

The evidence belongs to the American people. That evidence doesn't belong to one party who would suppress that information to benefit their benefactor.

Funny thing about this letter is a). Kevin thinks he's going to be Speaker and b). Had Kevin acted responsibly after Jan 6th and approved a truly bipartisan committee to investigate the Jan 6th attacks, instead of bowing to Trump, he might actually be taking on the Speakers mantle next and he could serve as a real leader for the post-Trump GOP....but his actions only served to mark him as a craven lackey of Trump with no real backbone or leadership ability.

[Deuxcents]

16. He hasn't been anointed yet n he's being a bully

That is not leadership. He’s an angry man bent on revenge n the country is not the better for it

[kentuck]

19. I thought the Committee had already said they were going to turn over all the documents to DOJ

The Committee did the Department of Justice a great favor.

Knowing that it was going to be one of the most complex and "partisan" investigations in the history of this country, Nancy Pelosi and a few others decided that it was necessary, and best for the freedom of the country, that they form a Committee to investigate the armed attack upon our Capitol.

Preferring that as many people as possible to understand, what really happened on January 6th, 2021, was an act of sedition against our country.

Now, two leaders of the Oath Keepers group, have been found guilty of "seditious conspiracy".

[Hekate]

22. The Man from Bakersfield spouts off again

[Hotler]

24. Dems should read it aloud word for word on the House floor. nt

[LenaBaby61]

29. REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[kentuck]

25. Yes. They can turn all of them over to the Special Counsel.

And they can be preserved by the DOJ.

[usedtobedemgurl]

26. I am so confused by this.....

I thought January 6th was like any other day there may be a tour of the Capital. Yet, Kev says,”Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.” Oh noes, did he just admit something?!?!?!

[MissMillie]

28. Where is Kevin's concern about the documents found a Mar-a-Lago?

I mean... seriously? Where is his public condemnation of TFG holding onto documents that don't belong to him?

I have no doubt that the smart members of the J6 Committee will do everything they can to make sure that the DOJ and the American people will have access to all of the evidence collected.

I also have no doubt that if Kevin and the rest of the GOP have their way, the evidence will be buried. I don't think they can stop the DOJ from getting their hands on it, but if the J6 Committee were to provide public access to these materials (say, through links on a website), the GOP would find a way to shut it down.

[intheflow]

31. McCarthy: It's "imperative that all information collected be preserved..."

"...so we can destroy it and then claim you made it up."

Meanwhile, as a librarian, I have already placed my order for the J6 report for our library system, so ha-ha, Kev. It's going to be published and you/your party will be further revealed as the scallywags you are.

[Hekate]

34. Fine. Make EVERYTHING public. I look forward to it.