Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday hit back at his own party’s censure of Reps Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the panel investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol, which infamously called the pro-Trump riot “legitimate political discourse”.
Speaking at a weekly media availability, Mr McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, took issue with the party’s characterisation of the House select committee’s work as “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse”.
