“We cannot just sweep this under the rug. We need to know why it happened, who did it and people need to be held accountable for it. And I'm committed to make sure that happens.”
Just five days after the Jan. 6, 2021, mob invasion of our Capitol, those words were spoken, with patriotic determination, by one of Washington’s most prominently placed political leaders. He was not an anti-Trump Democrat bent on partisan vengeance. He was House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican who had loyally backed President Donald Trump. But when that violent mob bashed outnumbered police, smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol – forcing McCarthy and his staff to flee their own offices – the GOP leader urged his fellow Republicans to stand firmly behind the democracy that is the heart and soul of America’s exceptionalism.
Fast-forward to Thursday night: We watched a live, made-for-TV drama unlike anything ever seen in America’s history. We saw the premier showing of the House Select Committee’s investigation of the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol. It featured scenes that revealed evidence indicating that a sitting U.S. president had actually sought to overthrow his own election defeat and somehow stay in power. Yes, Donald Trump.
