Nancy Pelosi will nominate anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinsinger to join the January 6 committee

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi She said on Sunday that she planned to appoint Adam Kinzinger, a representative of the Republican Party of Illinois, to the House Special Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Pelosi told ABC information’ this week On Sunday, she plans to consult King Singer, one of the former president’s most famous critics Donald Trump, Served as a committee member when the committee investigated the deadly attack. Kinsinger will join another high-profile Trump critic who is currently the only Republican member of the House Committee: Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

The committee was originally intended to be bipartisan, but after Pelosi directly rejected two of the candidates, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew all five of his potential Republican candidates because it would disrupt the process.

Pelosi told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, “This will be my plan,” and will appoint Kinsinger to a select committee sometime in the next week.

Pelosi said: “I won’t announce it this minute, but you can say that this is where I am going.” “He and others Republicans Having expressed interest in serving on the select committee, I want to appoint the three members suggested by the McCarthy leader, but he withdrew their names. “

Pelosi admitted that she had previously recruited two McCarthy candidates to join the committee before the House Republican leader completely withdrew all five candidates. Pelosi said that she totally rejected Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Indiana Rep. Jim Banks as potential committee members because they would “endanger the integrity of the investigation.”

The speaker of the House of Representatives said of Jordan and Banks: “I will never tolerate their antics as we seek the truth.” Cheney was responsible for Pelosi’s rejection of Jordan and Banks’ entry into the committee last week. Decided to defend and stated that she remains “absolutely committed and committed to ensuring that this investigation holds those who participated in or helped organize the January 6 riots”.

Pelosi waits for the top Democratic Party He praised Cheney for joining the committee and continued to publicly criticize the previous administration and opposed the Republican House leadership that strongly supported Trump.

“I think she brought a very important point of view, and I think she brought a conservative status and pedigree worthy of attention,” California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff Speaking of Cheney on Thursday.

Cheney asked to hire a Republican consultant, National Broadcasting Corporation News reports on Sunday said she asked Denver Riggleman, the former Republican of Virginia, to hold the position.

Weekly newspaper On Sunday morning, he contacted King Singer and Cheney’s congressional office, hoping to comment on the next steps of the House of Representatives investigation into the January 6 riots.