It has been beauteous obvious, implicit the past fewer weeks, that the GOP has nary involvement successful looking into the events of January 6th. Rather than taking a legislature sheet seriously, Kevin McCarthy tried to marque a sideshow of it by putting Trump sycophants similar Jim Banks and Jim Jordan connected it.
The Republicans cognize that this proceeding is going to marque them look terrible. And the attacks connected the constabulary officers testifying person already begun. Last week, Tucker Carlson painted serviceman Harry Dunn arsenic a extremist socialist who doesn’t correspond existent constabulary officers.
Nicolle Wallace discussed the upcoming sheet during her Monday show. “These were not victimless crimes,” she said. The transgression of lying astir the insurrection near the law enforcement officials who the political affiliation was not known to anyone, inactive really isn’t. The trauma that was done to them happened connected unrecorded TV. We each saw it with our ain eyes. For Republicans to person denied their heroics, to person denied the brutality to person denied the gruesome quality of their beatings astatine the hands of Donald Trump supporters, is astir a crime connected apical of a crime.”
The big continued, “The fearfulness and the disgrace of the Republican Party led by Kevin McCarthy’s attraction of these officers volition besides beryllium connected display.”
Nicolle Wallace says the upcoming legislature proceeding with amusement the fearfulness and disgraceful mode the GOP has treated the battered Capitol constabulary officers. pic.twitter.com/XEgxaxOQ1t
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) July 26, 2021
The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes weighed in, “ It volition and I expect the testimony volition beryllium very, very compelling, volition beryllium very, very dramatic, and will, successful fact, make it precise hard for the public not to admit the assault connected instrumentality enforcement. “
The GOP and its media instrumentality volition beryllium moving precise hard to distract from the upcoming panel. It volition beryllium incumbent upon Democrats to support the unit on.
Todd Neikirk is simply a New Jersey based authorities and exertion writer. His enactment has been featured successful psfk.com, foxsports.com and hillreporter.com. He enjoys sports, politics, comic books and spending clip astatine the enactment with his family.