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Jennifer Bendery

21 May, 9 tweets, 2 min read

On Weds, 175 House Republicans voted against creating a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Of course they did.

So many of them are complicit in what happened that day and they don't want to talk about it. huffpost.com/entry/republic…

Reasons Republicans have given for not supporting an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection:

*It's duplicative. (It's on the same track as the 9/11 commission.)

*It's partisan. (Pelosi caved on nearly all GOP demands.)

*There was no insurrection. 😑

Imagine you're one of GOP lawmakers who has been pushing the lie that the election was stolen from Trump.

Dems call you out. Eh. "Politics."

But a respected, bipartisan, independent panel of people publicly connects the lies you spread to what fueled the insurrection? Bad news.

These Republicans know that.

They also know they are well-positioned to win control of the House in 2022, and an independent probe into what led to the insurrection could really mess it up for them.

There’s plenty of evidence that Republicans helped spread Trump’s lie -- the one that fueled the insurrection. They did it in press releases. Political videos. Public speeches. Tweets. They went on live television and did it.

It was all happening in plain sight.

I went back and looked to see how many House Republicans voted to overturn the election in January -- based on the BIG LIE -- and then voted Wednesday against creating a commission to investigate the attack fueled by that lie.

Nearly all of them.

139 House Republicans voted to overturn the election in January because of a big lie.

131 of them voted Wednesday not to stand up an independent commission to investigate an insurrection at the Capitol fueled by the big lie. huffpost.com/entry/republic…

The most glaring names in the mix?

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise
Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik

All 3 have peddled Trump’s lie. All 3 voted to overturn the election. And all 3 voted to bury that reality on Weds.

Who are the 131 House Republicans who voted to overturn the election, peddled Trump's lie + then voted Weds to stop an independent, bipartisan commission from investigating the insurrection fueled by the lie?

For posterity, their names are all in here: huffpost.com/entry/republic…

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"But I guess that's politics."

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So the top two Republican leaders in the House and Senate now officially oppose an independent panel investigating what led to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and how to prevent it from ever happening again. huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mc…

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