Rep. McCarthy: Dems Using Jan. 6 Event to ‘Divide’ Country

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wrote a letter to Republican conference members Sunday accusing Democrats of politicizing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack to “divide” the country.

McCarthy ripped Democrats for failing to answer “the central question of how the Capitol was left so unprepared and what must be done to ensure it never happens again.”

“Instead, they are using it as a partisan political weapon to further divide our country,” McCarthy, R-Calif., wrote in his letter.

Former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro Monday on Newsmax railed against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for not including other Republicans on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 incidents at the Capitol. 

“What an idiot,” Navarro said on Newsmax’s “American Agenda.”

“I mean, he plays checkers and chess world at a critical time. He refused to put Republicans on that committee other than Liz Cheney, who’s not a Republican, so we lost our opportunity to publicly press that advantage.”

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