Pelosi Bars Trump Loyalists From Jan. 6 Inquiry, Prompting a G.O.P. Boycott

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved connected Wednesday to barroom 2 of erstwhile President Donald J. Trump’s most vociferous Republican defenders successful Congress from joining a prime committee to analyse the Jan. 6 riot astatine the Capitol, saying their behaviour suggested they could not beryllium trusted to participate.

In an antithetic move, Ms. Pelosi announced that she was rejecting Representatives Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio, some of whom amplified Mr. Trump’s mendacious claims of predetermination fraud, joined their party’s efforts to situation President Biden’s triumph connected Jan. 6 and person opposed efforts to analyse the battle connected the Capitol by Trump supporters. She agreed to spot the different 3 Republicans who had been chosen for the panel.

But Ms. Pelosi said she could not let the brace to instrumentality part, based connected their actions astir the riot and comments they had made undercutting the investigation. Mr. Banks, who has equated the deadly onslaught to unrest during the radical justness protests past summer, said the Jan. 6 enquiry was created to “malign conservatives and to warrant the left’s authoritarian agenda.” Mr. Jordan, 1 of the biggest cheerleaders of Mr. Trump’s effort to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 election, pressed Mr. Trump’s mendacious claims of predetermination fraud connected the House level arsenic protesters breached the Capitol, and has called the prime committee “impeachment Round 3.”

The speaker’s determination drew an aggravated effect from Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the number leader, who announced that Republicans would boycott the sheet altogether. He seized connected Ms. Pelosi’s involution arsenic confirmation of his complaint that the probe was thing much than a governmental workout to wounded the G.O.P.

The partisan brawl, unfolding adjacent earlier the prime committee has begun its work, underscored the hard task it faces successful scrutinizing an onslaught connected the lawmakers present charged with dissecting it. It was besides the latest grounds of however poisonous relations person go betwixt the 2 parties, particularly successful the House, successful the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s decision and the convulsive bid to artifact certification of the outcome.

Many Democrats nary longer privation to enactment with oregon perceive from Republicans who helped dispersed Mr. Trump’s lie of a stolen election, particularly those who led the effort and person sought to downplay the severity and value of the assault that it inspired. Some said allowing 2 of the astir salient defenders to service connected a sheet examining the onslaught was akin to allowing criminals to analyse their ain crimes.

In a statement, Ms. Pelosi said she had rejected Mr. Banks and Mr. Jordan “with respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence connected the information and with interest astir statements made and actions taken by these members.”

“The unprecedented quality of Jan. 6 demands this unprecedented decision,” she added.

A visibly agitated Mr. McCarthy hastily called a quality league to condemn Ms. Pelosi’s determination and impeach her of excessive partisanship. He pledged to transportation retired a Republican-only probe into the events of Jan. 6, focused connected however Ms. Pelosi should person done much to support the Capitol from a mob of Trump loyalists.

“Why was the Capitol truthful ill-prepared for that day, erstwhile they knew connected Dec. 14 that they had a problem?” Mr. McCarthy said, referring to Democrats. “Pelosi has created a sham process.”

In a tv workplace connected Capitol Hill, Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Banks and Mr. Jordan — appearing with the 3 different Republicans chosen to beryllium connected the sheet — sought to divert blasted for the riot from Mr. Trump and their ain governmental supporters who carried it out, alternatively faulting Democrats who they said had not adequately planned for the onslaught.

Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, the president of the prime committee, said helium would “not beryllium distracted by sideshows” and pledged to determination guardant with the panel’s work, including its archetypal nationalist proceeding adjacent week wherever Capitol and District of Columbia constabulary officers are acceptable to attest astir however they fought disconnected the mob.

Ms. Pelosi had softly debated her options with Democratic members of the panel, who had expressed reservations astir allowing firebrands similar Mr. Jordan and Mr. Banks, truthful intimately associated with Mr. Trump’s efforts to undermine the election, to service alongside them.

“There are radical who privation to derail and thwart an probe and determination are radical who privation to behaviour an investigation,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a subordinate of the panel. “That’s the responsibility enactment here.”

Democrats received high-profile backing from Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Mr. McCarthy’s erstwhile No. 3 whom Ms. Pelosi appointed to the committee aft she was ousted from her enactment presumption successful May for criticizing Mr. Trump.

“The rhetoric that we person heard from the number person is disingenuous,” Ms. Cheney told reporters connected the steps of the Capitol. “At each opportunity, the number person has attempted to forestall the American radical from knowing what happened, to artifact this investigation.”

She said Ms. Pelosi had been close to barroom Mr. Jordan and Mr. Banks from the panel, saying that Mr. Jordan was a imaginable “material witness” and Mr. Banks had “disqualified himself” with caller comments disparaging the committee’s work.

Mr. Banks has travel nether disapproval for arranging a caller travel for House Republicans to articulation Mr. Trump astatine the southwestern border, successful which a subordinate in the Capitol riot astatine times served arsenic a translator. He had besides released a combative connection Monday nighttime successful which helium blamed the Biden medication for its effect to the riot — which occurred during the last days of the Trump medication — and said helium would not let the committee “to beryllium turned into a forum for condemning millions of Americans due to the fact that of their governmental beliefs.”

On Wednesday, some helium and Mr. Jordan accused Ms. Pelosi of failing to unafraid the Capitol from the rioters, who stalked her done the corridors connected Jan. 6, chanting “Nancy.”

Congressional leaders bash not oversee information successful the Capitol, though they prosecute those who do. It is controlled by the Capitol Police Board, which includes the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and the designer of the Capitol. At the clip of the attack, the House sergeant-at-arms, Paul D. Irving, had been connected the occupation since 2012, erstwhile helium was hired nether Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio. The Senate sergeant-at-arms astatine the time, Michael Stenger, was hired successful 2018 erstwhile Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, led the chamber.

Mr. Jordan, who has called the committee's enactment a governmental onslaught connected Mr. Trump, was among a radical of House Republicans who met with the erstwhile president successful December to assistance program the effort to situation Mr. Biden’s victory. Democratic members of the prime committee were considering calling him arsenic a witnesser successful their investigation.

Ms. Cheney reportedly clashed with Mr. Jordan connected the House level connected Jan. 6, blaming him for the riot, according to a caller publication by 2 reporters for The Washington Post.

Ms. Pelosi had said she would judge Mr. McCarthy’s 3 different nominees to the sheet — Representative Rodney Davis of Illinois, Representative Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota and Representative Troy Nehls of Texas — and said she encouraged Mr. McCarthy to connection 2 caller picks to regenerate Mr. Jordan and Mr. Banks.

But pursuing Mr. McCarthy’s lead, those 3 besides said they would not participate.

“I was surely prepared to assistance this committee get to the truth,” said Mr. Nehls, brandishing a binder of research. “But unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi has shown she’s much funny successful playing politics.”