Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized President Biden’s decision to pardon Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) and other members of the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, saying the move “raises doubt on what they did.”
During a “Today Show” interview on Monday morning, McCarthy said he did not think the pardons were a good move for Biden.
“I don’t think he should have done that,” he said. “I mean, this whole idea is that he’s fearful of something that President Trump may do, that he hasn’t done. To me, it raises doubt upon what they did.”
McCarthy mentioned that Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was House Speaker when the Jan. 6 panel was formed, did not allow two Republican picks — Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Jim Banks (Ind.) — to join the Jan. 6 select committee.
In response, McCarthy, then the House minority leader, did not participate in the select committee and yanked all of his GOP picks — Reps. Jim Banks (Ind.), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Rodney Davis (Ill.), Kelly Armstrong (N.D.) and Troy Nehls (Texas) — in protest of her decision.
“I was the Republican leader at the time, it was the first time, then Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not allow me to name the Republicans to the committee, so now it raises more doubt,” McCarthy said. “And then when the committee ended, we took the majority, they wouldn’t turn over all the documents to us.”
