Republicans Are Trying for a Capitol Riot Coverup

Jonathan Bernstein: “With the announcement that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is putting some of the same Republicans on the Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection who egged on the riot at the Capitol in the first place, it’s pretty clear — if it wasn’t already — that the Republican strategy will be to pretend that nothing important happened, and to throw mud everywhere to undermine the investigation by the House of Representatives.”

“As Greg Sargent pointed out in the Washington Post, this — along with the expected refusal of various Republicans to cooperate with fact-finding — constitutes a form of coverup. That’s hardly a surprise, but it does create some tricky challenges for those Democrats and Republicans who take the situation seriously.”