Democratic Congressman Suggests Kevin McCarthy Is 'Afraid of Donald Trump'
On 5/20/21 at 6:30 AM EDT
Congressman Jim McGovern said House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy may be a coward who is afraid of former President Donald Trump after he voted against plans to create an independent commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot.
In an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday, Rep. McGovern (D-MA) said McCarthy (R-CA) had got "basically everything he wanted" in the proposals for the independent commission, noting that its members would be made up evenly of Republicans and Democrats.
The aim of the commission would be to review the events that led to the deadly attack on Congress, any intelligence failures and how the government responded. The House backed setting up a commission on Wednesday in a 252-175 vote that saw 35 Republican lawmakers break with their party to back the probe.