Former President Trump on Tuesday tore apart Arizona State House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R), who will testify before an elected House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, later in the day. the election from Georgia.
“Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers is the last [Republican in name only] to play with the Unselect Committee, “Trump said in a statement issued through his PAC” Save America. ”
Trump also claims that Bowers told him after the 2020 election that he would have lost his candidacy for re-election to his seat in Arizona if it had not been for the help of the former president.
Bowers will testify along with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger (right) and his deputy, Gabe Stirling, in the House of Representatives group, as lawmakers seek to show the extent of Trump’s campaign of pressure on government officials to overturn election results. in 2020
The Arizona Speaker of the House of Representatives has rejected efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, joining a number of states on the battlefield that Trump lost, despite calls from former president and Rudy Giuliani to postpone or change the results. Bowers later survived an attempt to withdraw to his state.
In February, the Arizona Republican effectively doomed a bill that would allow the state or general election results to be rejected by the state legislature.
“To tell someone that we have plenary power to lower people’s voices for something that we think may have happened, where it is [the evidence]”Bowers told Capitol Media Services at the time.
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He would later be named one of the five winners of the John F. Kennedy 2022 Courage Award for “their courage to defend and defend democracy”; others were Republican Vice President Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and former Georgia election associate Vandrea “Shea” Moss, who also testified before the committee later Tuesday.
Trump’s remarks come as he continues to assess the January 6 hearings, echoing baseless false allegations of election fraud and destroying former officials such as former Vice President Mike Pence and former Attorney General William Barr.
His comments also sparked new speculation about whether the former president will run for re-election in 2024, a potential offer for which hearings could pose a threat.
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