One of the Jan. 6 select committee’s biggest challenges, from the beginning, was that Republicans opposed a bipartisan, independent investigation styled after the 9/11 Commission.
But in spite of that, and the ensuing Republican insistence that the investigation is a partisan exercise, a former member of the 9/11 Commission says that the Jan. 6 committee has skillfully created a public record of what happened that day.
“Tell the story plainly,” Roemer advised. “They have to write it in a report that the American people can digest and want to read. That will be key.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., proposed adding five Republicans to the panel, but Pelosi, and in response, McCarthy withdrew all his picks and stopped participating in the formation of the committee.
The committee chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said on Thursday at what may prove to be the final hearing, “The evidence has proven that there was a multipart plan led by former President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election.
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