Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed that she's likely to appoint GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger — a rare Donald Trump antagonist in his party — as part of a boosted Republican presence on to the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday confirmed that she's likely to appoint GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger — a rare Donald Trump antagonist in his party — to the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection as part of a boosted Republican presence.
Pelosi’s comments come days after House Minority Kevin McCarthy withdrew the remaining Republican appointments to the panel following the speaker's rejection of two of them, Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana. Both are aggressive defenders of the former president, and they were already gearing up to shift the focus onto Democrats, rather than Trump and their party.
Should Kinzinger join his friend Cheney on the select panel, Democrats will be able to tout the involvement of two traditional conservatives in a bipartisan inquiry. Nonetheless, the findings of the panel will likely be rejected by Trump's allies, who have blasted the panel as a partisan ploy designed to hurt him and the party ahead of the midterms next year.
"It's clear that Pelosi only wants members on this committee who will stick to her talking points and stick to her narrative," Banks said in an interview with "Fox News Sunday." "That's why she's picked the group that she's already picked, and anyone that she asks to be on this committee from this point moving forward will be stuck to her narrative, to her point of view. There won't be another side.
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