Arizona House Speaker Russell "Rusty" Bowers (R) testified Tuesday that former President Trump and his allies attempted to convince him that the election was rigged despite "never" providing evidence.![]()
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President Trump released a statement exposing Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers for covering up the massive 2020 election fraud before he testified as a witness for the January 6th Unselect Committee on Tuesday.www.thegatewaypundit.com
Why it matters: Trump singled out Bowers in a statement prior to the Jan. 6 select committee's fourth hearing on Tuesday, calling him a RINO — "Republican In Name Only" — and claiming that Bowers had once told him that "the election was rigged."
What he's saying: Bowers told the committee he "didn't want to be used as a pawn."
- According to Bowers, who said he denied ever calling the election rigged, then-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed that 200,000 unauthorized immigrants and "5,000 or 6,000 dead people" had voted in the election.
- He said that after asking "multiple times" for evidence, Trump interrupted and said, "Give the man what he needs, Rudy!"
- But Giuliani never produced the evidence, he added.
- Giuliani also claimed that Arizona had a "legal theory or a legal ability" by which electors of President Biden could be removed and replaced, Bowers said.
- When the lawyer pressed Bowers on it, the Arizona House speaker said he told him, "You’re asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath."
- Bowers added that Giuliani at one point said, "We've got lots of theories — we just don't have the evidence."
- Bowers said he told the president he would not pursue anything illegal on his account. However, after that call, John Eastman — the conservative legal scholar and ex-lawyer for Trump who championed the theory along with Trump that the vice president could unilaterally reject electors — again tried to persuade Bowers that they could "decertify the electors."
- The Arizona House speaker said he stood by his oath to office.

Arizona House speaker: "I didn't want to be used as a pawn" in effort to overturn election
Rusty Bowers said Rudy Giuliani claimed that unauthorized immigrants and dead people had voted in the election en masse.
