House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday defended her proposal of a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, saying that the probe must focus on what she deemed “domestic terrorism,” rather than a broader scope of political violence. “We have a domestic terrorism challenge in this country,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference. “Domestic violence is taking more lives than international violence in this country and the biggest number since [the 1995 bombing in] Oklahoma City.” “The biggest buckets under that category of domestic violence were white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and the other list of xenophobia, Islamophobia, et cetera,” she added. Pelosi’s comment is part of the ongoing back-and-forth between the Democrats and Republicans on who caused the breach of Capitol and what the commission should investigate. Following the report that Democrats want the probe to include right-wing political violence beyond the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans …
Pelosi Wants Commission Investigating Capitol Breach to Focus on ‘Domestic Terrorism’
February 26, 2021
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