1/6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson Nails House Republicans For Being Involved In Capitol Attack

1/6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said they had recovered grounds of House Republican engagement successful the Capitol attack.

The 1/6 Committee Has Evidence Of House Republican Involvement In Trump’s Capitol Attack

Video of Chairman Thompson connected ABC’s This Week:

Transcript via ABC’s This Week:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Any grounds that you person travel crossed that immoderate of your chap members of Congress whitethorn beryllium culpable?

THOMPSON: Well, we’re successful the process of getting to that.

As you know, we person asked 2 members of Congress to voluntarily travel earlier our committee. We volition astir apt beryllium asking immoderate much to come. Former subordinate and main of unit of erstwhile President Donald Trump gave america implicit 9,000 pages of documents we person been going done . We’re looking astatine what occurred connected January 6.

More specifically, successful those documents, there’s connection betwixt immoderate of those members and the White House, particularly asking them to — asking Chief of Staff Meadows to get the president to telephone disconnected this riot oregon insurrection.

So, there’s immoderate involvement. We conscionable privation to marque definite we get to the bottommost of it, and we nutrient a study that tin beryllium viewed with integrity and accuracy by the American people.

House Republicans Were Involved In The 1/6 Attack/Trump’s Coup

It has agelong been suspected based connected the behaviour of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy down done House Republicans similar Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene that they were perchance progressive successful the attack.

Republicans are truthful blameworthy that they person released a propaganda video that mentions thing astir the 1/6 attack.

House Republicans person spent each time for astir a twelvemonth trying to discredit the probe due to the fact that they don’t privation the Select Committee to uncover their relation successful Trump’s coup.

The events of 1/6 are being revealed arsenic a coordinated crippled to overturn an election. Trump was the hub, but the crippled extended passim authorities and beyond.