Opinion by Greg Sargent: Kevin McCarthy feared death on Jan. 6. Then he protected Trump anyway.
What’s now clearer than ever is that McCarthy saw helping with Trump’s insurrectionas essential to keeping the GOP united and on a pathRep. Jamie B. Raskin , a member of the Jan. 6 committee, says this new reporting
strengthens the case that Trump sought to use mob violence to obstruct the official proceeding of counting the presidential electors — a potential crime — by impeding the lawmakers themselves. “This is a meaningful corroborating detail in the already abundant evidence that Trump set about to interfere with this crucial federal proceeding, the peaceful transfer of power,” Raskin told me, noting that this also “underscores McCarthy’s complicity in helping Trump cover up for the dangerous violence that he had unleashed.
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