2022-06-22 11:39:46

Top Arizona Republican Testifies He Rejected Trump Plot to Overturn Vote, Then Faced Violent Threats

The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its fourth public hearing Tuesday with testimony that included a series of Republican state officials detailing pressure they faced from President Donald Trump and his staff to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Republican Speaker of the Arizona House "Rusty" Bowers described how he was pushed by Trump, John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani to call the Arizona Legislature back into session to investigate what Trump's team claimed were hundreds of thousands of illegal votes cast by dead people and undocumented immigrants in a greater effort to undo Joe Biden's win in the state. Bowers refused after Trump's team wasn't able to provide evidence of a rigged election — and consequently, Bowers and his family became the target of death threats by white supremacist groups and other Trump supporters. "I didn't want to be used as a pawn," said Bowers during his live testimony. #democracynow

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