After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will not support the Jan. 6 Capitol riot commission in its current form, Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee called the decisions by GOP leadership "sick" and "bizarre."
"It was developed in a bipartisan fashion with a bipartisan structure with no political figures allowed to serve on it to do one thing: find the truth and report it to the Congress and the American people. Why that would be offensive to Mitch McConnell or to Kevin McCarthy is not explainable in real terms and real logic, except that they see a political downside to the truth. If the truth becomes your enemy, you may be in the wrong line of work," Kildee said to CNN's Kate Bolduan.
The Democrat from Michigan called the commission "the definition of balanced."
"Leader McConnell referred to it as ‘unbalanced and slanted.’ It's five Republican-appointed members and five Democrats. That is the definition of balanced. It was negotiated by Democrats and Republicans. It's not slanted, but they have to say things in order to somehow delegitimize the outcome,” he said.
Kildee went on to say that McConnell and House Minority Leader McCarthy are "afraid of the truth."
"This is a dangerous moment in the sort of arc of American political thinking, the fact that they can invent new facts to serve their own needs when our own eyes witnessed this thing. It's bizarre, and it's sick. It's sick," Kildee said.
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