WASHINGTON, July 26 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday named an outspoken Republican critic of former president Donald Trump to join the committee probing the January 6 US Capitol insurrection, two days ahead of its first hearings.
They had been egged on by Trump, whose fiery speech earlier that day falsely claiming election fraud was the culmination of months of baseless claims about a contest he lost fairly to Biden. “This moment requires a serious, clear-eyed, non-partisan approach. We are duty-bound to conduct a full investigation on the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814 and to make sure it can never happen again.”After Kinzinger was named on Sunday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy issued a statement slamming Pelosi’s appointment of those who “share her pre-conceived narrative” and said the committee “will not yield a serious investigation.
Hours after the attack on the Capitol, both were among several Republicans who voted in line with the apparent objective of the rioters — to block certification of the election results in several key states won by Biden. Pelosi’s Democrats had sought a united effort in investigating the riot via a bipartisan, independent 9/11-style commission but it was blocked by the Republicans.
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