The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol will convene for its first prime time hearing on Thursday evening. But don’t expect former president Donald Trump’s biggest apologists in the House of Representatives to be watching.
“I think I’ll be on a flight,” Representative Matt Gaetz told The Independent on Wednesday. Mr Gaetz has been one of Mr Trump’s most vocal proponents in the House and has even said that he would vote to nominate the former president as speaker of the House if Republicans win back the majority in November.
