It’s so dumb. The Republicans always planned to turn this into a partisan exercise, which is obvious since they refused a FAIR, NON-PARTISAN COMMISSION THAT GAVE THEM AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF POWER!
Please!!! It’s obvious what they’re doing and Pelosi did exactly the right thing in rejecting those two evil henchmen, Banks and Jordan, undoubtedly knowing very well that Kevin McCarthy (known to Trump as “my Kevin”) would pull the rest of the Republicans from the committee. Now they can have serious, substantive hearings that may feature some shenanigans from the audience (they’ll have their own MAGA Code Pink, I’m sure) but they won’t have sabotage from within the committee or screaming matches on the dais.
I expect she knew that this would happen and it isn’t at all surprising. The Republicans made it clear that they wanted to sabotage any investigation into their Dear Leader’s coup attempt. It had to be partisan. They left them no choice.