Will your Jan 6 investigation look at Trump’s role?

Kevin McCarthy: “We will look at anything that caused this place to not be protected.”

🤔

huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mc…
McCarthy & co's top question is why was the Capitol so vulnerable. They claim Dems fear this question.

But a bipartisan Senate investigation focused on the security failure. Their report faulted failures of intelligence sharing, police leadership disarray & no riot training
McCarthy keeps repeating this detail from the Senate report about how police riot gear was on a bus that was locked, saying Dems don't want to investigate this.

But that's -- that's FROM the investigation that Amy Klobuchar was running!
Today I asked him what he wants to do, figure out who locked the bus?

"Why was it there," he said. "Why didn't they have it better positioned?"
So I said isn't the answer that they were just incompetent?

"So what's the solution?" he said.

The Senate report would like a word
take the Senate report and its recommendations for whatever they're worth -- point here is merely that this notion Dems fear an investigation into the security lapse is ridiculous unless they're suggesting Nancy Pelosi locked that bus herself, which, yeah.

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