McCarthy hit with ethics complaint after handing over Jan. 6 tapes to Tucker Carlson

HRepresentative Kevin McCarthy (R.-CA) faces an ethics case filed by a non-profit watchdog group. The complaint alleges McCarthy was politically motivated to publish his resignation. security camera footage Tucker Carlson, Fox News host, was the victim of the January 6th riot.

Public Citizen Members filed a formal complaint against McCarthy Tuesday asking for the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate McCarthy’s violation of House rules. This request is one day following Carlson began releasing portions of the footage His prime-time television show led to concerns from other media outlets that he would leave. “advocate an inaccurate story of events.”

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“The Speaker’s release of security footage exclusively to Tucker Carlson is pure and simple using congressional resources for partisan gamesmanship — the very type of polarizing gamesmanship that has caused such damage to the public’s perception of the integrity of Congress,” The group wrote in its letter.

McCarthy released the video to Carlson in response to Republican lawmakers’ demands. McCarthy repeatedly justified his decision to give Carlson the footage, saying that it was necessary to allow an open investigation into the Capitol Riot.

While the House speaker promised that the footage would be made available to all news media outlets after Carlson’s crew has finished looking through it, it is not yet clear when. Public Citizen was critical of McCarthy’s decision to give the footage only to Carlson and accused him of violating Section 1A.

“It was wrong for Speaker McCarthy to