{"id":1505631,"date":"2022-06-06T15:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505631"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:05:34","slug":"trump-endorses-mccarthy-ahead-of-january-6-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorses-mccarthy-ahead-of-january-6-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Endorses McCarthy Ahead Of January 6 Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-endorses-mccarthy-ahead-of-january-6-hearings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505631&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump has endorsed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ahead of the hearings on the Democrat-led investigation into the Capitol Riot, which will take place later Thursday at 8 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Kevin McCarthy is an outstanding Representative for the people of California, and a strong and fearless Leader of the House Republican Conference,\u201d Trump said in his June 5 endorsement of the California Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Leader, Kevin is building a \u2018Commitment to America\u2019 platform to Grow our Economy, Fight Big Tech Censorship, Secure the Border, Strengthen our Military, Defend the Second Amendment, Improve our Health Care, Restore American Energy Independence, Support our Brave Veterans, and Uphold the Rule of Law and American Values,\u201d he continued. \u201cKevin McCarthy has my Complete and Total Endorsement for California\u2019s 20th Congressional District!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement comes after the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that McCarthy had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/leaked-audio-kevin-mccarthy-considered-telling-trump-to-resign-after-capitol-riot\">contemplated<\/a> calling on the former president to resign in the wake of the Capitol Riot. Despite a flurry of media reports on the matter, Trump and McCarthy have preserved their friendship, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes as the committee prepares to reveal the results of its investigation during primetime news on Thursday evening, hinting at \u201cdisturbing\u201d details previously unknown to the public. As the House minority leader, McCarthy is expected to lead the congressional Republicans in their response to the hearings.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My statement on the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PWi2WkoWzh\">pic.twitter.com\/PWi2WkoWzh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1517164322782433287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers on the House\u2019s Jan. 6 committee have hired the former president of ABC News, James Goldston, to promote its findings as a \u201cblockbuster investigative special,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-am-047a583d-c615-4c68-8351-eb4cf5698698.html?chunk=0&#038;utm_term=twsocialshare#story0\">Axios reported<\/a>. Those results will be aired during primetime on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s hearing will reportedly include both pre-produced videos and live witnesses, according to Axios, as well as the unveiling of never-before-seen official White House photographs of the breach and surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is extremely broad. It\u2019s extremely well organized. It\u2019s really chilling,\u201d Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/liz-cheney-january-6-insurrection-conspiracy-to-overturn-election-was-extremely-broad-well-organized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS \u201cSunday Morning,<\/a>\u201d describing the riot as an \u201cextremely well-organized\u201d conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be, I think, substantial evidence that really demonstrates the coordination and the planning and the effort, despite the fact that they understood that Donald Trump lost the election and even once the insurrection began and the violence began, there were ongoing efforts to persuade the former President to stop the violence and call on folks to go home, and he refused to do it,\u201d Democratic Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island <a href=\"https:\/\/e.newsletters.cnn.com\/click?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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy and Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) accused Democrats in late May of \u201cweaponizing\u201d the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Riot, writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/we-wont-talk-to-the-jan-6-committee-democrats-gop-secrets-lefitimacy-trump-weaponizing-government-power-11653597483\">in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cfor\u00a0House Republican leaders to agree to participate in this political stunt would change the House forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery representative in the minority would be subject to compelled interrogations by the majority, under oath, without any foundation of fairness, and at the expense of taxpayers,\u201d they added.\u00a0\u201cThe American people deserve better than Democrats\u2019 weaponization of its majority rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-69 Component-p-0-2-60\">McCarthy and Jordan argued that the committee is \u201cpacked\u201d with partisan lawmakers \u201cworking behind closed doors and selectively leaking cherry-picked information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith no effective check on its power, the Select Committee is trampling on fundamental Constitutional rights,\u201d they wrote.\u00a0\u201cIt is investigating the political speech of private citizens and demanding access to their personal records and private communications. When disputes over the requests arise, the Committee refuses to engage and seeks to punish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump has endorsed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ahead of the hearings on the Democrat-led investigation into the Capitol Riot, which will take place later Thursday at 8 pm ET. \u201cCongressman Kevin McCarthy is an outstanding Representative for the people of California, and a strong and fearless Leader of the House Republican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1505696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}