Nick Dyer, who is communications director for Greene, said the congresswoman was only involved in planning to refuse to accept certified ballots, nothing more. “I’m actually pretty pissed about it and I’m pissed at him.” They made us all look like s**t.” This person included Trump on their list of bad actors and described feeling used by him and then abandoned. One of those talking to Rolling Stone said: “It’s clear that a lot of bad actors set out to cause chaos…. She was on Trump’s campaign teams in 20, and worked with the organizers of the rallies before the mob stormed the Capitol. Katrina Pierson was a key figure in both accounts. “Meadows was 100 percent made aware of what was going on,” one of the sources said. They also claim that Gosar promised them a blanket presidential pardon, although they do not say for what.įrom the White House team, they singled out then–chief of staff Mark Meadows. They allegedly named Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX), as people with whom they planned. They deny that they intended to storm the Capitol and imply they got used, which points to the sources being from within Women for America First, the organization that sponsored a bus tour and rallies around the country before heading to Washington for January 6. They say they worked with congressional lawmakers and White House officials to plan rallies both in Washington, D.C., and around the country. The story says that two sources who are talking to the January 6th committee about planning the January rallies in Washington, D.C., have talked to Rolling Stone as well. But the fact is, lies about the election became a direct threat to our democracy and led to a violent insurrection in which people died.I had planned to post a picture tonight, but this evening Rolling Stone dropped an exclusive, blockbuster story from reporter Hunter Walker that demands attention. As there should be.īiggs and Gosar would like nothing more than for all of this to simply go away. The investigation into the attack on the Capitol is ongoing. He also reported that three of Gosar’s siblings would like to see him expelled from Congress. 6 violence, as was reported by the Republic’s Ronald J. The article mentions how Biggs’s two brothers say he is partly responsible for the Jan. John McCain “should be hung by the neck until dead.” They even dug back five-plus years to the time Biggs attended an event in which one of the Oath Keepers says Sen. Family cutting family tiesĪnd that Alexander called Gosar “my captain” and said, “One of the other heroes has been Congressman Andy Biggs.” The Times article mentions as well how activist Ali Alexander boasted on video that he “schemed up” the Jan. That particular photo was tweeted by NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, and the person with Gosar was identified by Nick Martin, creator of The Informant, an invaluable resource for those looking for information on the activities of extremists. And it refers as well to the way Gosar cozied up to a member of the Proud Boys (some of their members have been indicted in the Capitol insurrection), mentioning a photo taken during a Fourth of July event in Prescott. The Times points out, for instance, Gosar’s connection to the right wing Oath Keepers. The Times points out a widely-shared video featuring Gosar and Biggs spouting a truckload of hooey called “ This Election Is A Joke.”Īnd the article deals with a lot of issues covered by Arizona reporters during the past year, thus sharing the dubious actions of Arizona’s most shameful politicians with a national audience. With that in mind, the New York Times published an article Friday under the headline “ Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny.” The first two politicians mentioned in the article? 6 and the events leading up to it, particularly the way the discord was manufactured by lies about the election and wild conspiracy theories pushed by politicians more loyal to Donald Trump than to their country or their oath of office. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar would very much like us to forget about the insurrection of Jan. Politicians like Arizona’s Republican Reps. It’s good to believe in the possibility of better times to come and to not dwell on the ugliness of the past. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, and in some ways may be just the opposite. So the events of any given 24 hours are swept aside or buried under the events of the next day, and the next, and so on. In many ways, each day’s news is meant to be forgotten.
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