“RT to thank the women and men in blue on #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay,” Kevin McCarthy tweeted from his account earlier this month. The very produced one minute and 9 second-long video featured the Republican Home minority chief driving bikes with legislation enforcement and dealing with memorial wreaths. The tweet, dated Jan. 9, ends with the phrases “thanks to our police.”
However simply three days earlier than that tweet, on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 rebellion, McCarthy and almost all Home Republicans skipped a ceremony the place Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a second of silence and browse the names of U.S. Capitol officers who misplaced their lives on account of the rebellion. Only one sitting Republican member of Congress, Liz Cheney, confirmed.
