Thread by @SethAbramson

I don't think CNN or other cable networks should run insurrectionist press conferences anymore. Right now my TV shows at least 2 Trump co-conspirators being given a stage to say that the only people that need to be investigated over the GOP-incited January 6 attack are Democrats.

In a serious country, it's not "news" when thousands of major-media reports establish that an armed insurrection was coordinated by Republicans and then two Republicans implicated in those reports call a presser to demand a probe of their political opponents.

That's just lunacy.

McCarthy, Jordan, and the rest of the insurrectionists have made clear time and time again that the phrase "we need to find out why we were so ill-prepared for January 6" is code for their conspiracy theory that Pelosi and Bowser conspired with the USCP to "let" January 6 happen.

It's not responsible for cable news networks to give voice to this insurrectionist conspiracy theory, whether it's stated directly or via euphemism. Not one insurrectionist who spoke at this press conference exhibited any interest in finding out why January 6 happened. Not *one*.

McCarthy could've come out and said, I should get to pick any members I want and if I can't pick any members I want, I don't want my members to participate. But that's not what happened at this presser.

What happened was the *celebration* of an insurrectionist conspiracy theory.

Don't think for a moment that McCarthy and Jordan don't know what they're doing—as they well know how easily their fellow insurrectionists pick up on their code. What they've said during the presser is simply this: Nancy Pelosi is hiding her complicity in the events of January 6.

Team Trump sent people to the Capitol to kidnap and possibly kill Pence and Pelosi, and now he's fake-livid that Pelosi won't let him turn the House Select Committee on January 6 into a commission to investigate *her*. Imagine how sick you have to be to do what McCarthy is doing.