As expected, Arizona’s shadow loomed large during the January 6, 2021, first House hearing, the attack on the Capitol of our nation and our way of life.
There were the oh-so-proud boys from our state, recognizable by their orange hats and armbands that day as they knocked down barricades and attacked the Capitol Police.
There were fake voters, who did not stage a symbolic protest at first, but as co-conspirators in a coordinated plot to overthrow democracy. People like GOP chairman Kelli Ward of the state and Jim Lamon, who now hopes we will elect him to the U.S. Senate, and State Representative Jake Hoffman and former Representative Anthony Kern, who is running for legislature, have been rejected by voters two years ago.
And there was the nearly apoplectic Representative Andy Biggs, who went to the House of Representatives earlier on Thursday — the place where Capitol police had to draw their guns 17 months ago to hold back the mob — and Thursday’s hearing called “an illegal show trial.” called”. †
Biggs is more concerned about tortilla size
A Democrat-designed derivation of what America cares about most:
The price of tortillas.
“They don’t want you to talk about, ‘Hey, the size of that pack of tortillas I bought last week before it came out, it used to look like the regular corn tortillas, now it looks like mini tortillas,'” Biggs said.
“Same price, same packaging,” he continued. “They don’t want you to talk about that.”
Rep. Biggs, believe me when I say Americans can multitask. We can – and do – worry about staggering inflation and the fact that you now have to take out a bank loan to fill your gas tank.
But many of us today are also concerned about the future of democracy and breaking an age-old tradition of peaceful transfer of power.
This wasn’t just some spontaneous madness
Thursday’s hearing painted an ugly picture, one that will fill in as this month’s hearings continue. What we can see so far suggests that something more than just outrageous happened on January 6, 2021, a corruption that wasn’t just the unfortunate result of some spontaneous madness by impassioned “patriots” who were simply carried away.
It was carefully planned and painstakingly coordinated – from the seeds of doubt planted deep to tarnish confidence in our elections… to the false “voters” who were part of a scheme to steal the votes in Arizona and other swing states… to the storming of the Capitol to try to stop Joe Biden from running for president.
And certain Arizonans seem to be up to their heads in it.
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Which brings us back to the illustrious Rep. Biggs, who really, really, really didn’t want America to see the evidence put forward by the House select committee investigating Jan. 6.
The commission, he accused, is “not designed to find the truth. It is not designed to conceive a legitimate legislative purpose.” It is, he claimed, embroiled in “partisan wars”.
Multiple congressmen asked for pardon, Cheney said
A few hours later, Republican Representative Liz Cheney began dropping bombshells. Among them, some of her fellow Republican colleagues asked then-President Donald Trump to pardon them for participating in events leading up to the January 6 attack.
“Representative Scott Perry (from Pennsylvania) … has declined to testify here,” said Cheney, vice chairman of the House selection committee. “As you will see, Representative Perry contacted the White House in the weeks following Jan. “Presidential pardons. Several other Republican congressmen also asked for a presidential pardon for their role in undoing the 2020 election.”
She hasn’t named names yet… but we already have a pretty good idea who those several other Congressmen were: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy from California and Representatives Jim Jordan from Ohio, Mo Brooks from Alabama and yes, Andy Biggs.
All five were subpoenaed to testify. All five refused.
In a letter to Biggs in May, the committee noted that former White House staff identified him as one of the lawmakers seeking a pardon for “activities taken in connection with President Trump’s efforts to improve the results of the presidential election.” of 2020”.
What for, you ask?
If Biggs was seeking pardon, what exactly was it for?
We know that he attended White House planning sessions to keep Trump in office (as did Representatives Debbie Lesko and Paul Gosar). We know he helped spread the false story that the election was stolen. Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander has said he, Biggs, Brooks and Gosar “scheduled” the Jan. 6 meeting to pressure Congress not to certify the vote — a claim all three congressmen have denied. .
So why the need for pardons, Rep. biggs?
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Don’t look for an answer – at least from Biggs. He’s too busy smoking about the shrinking size of tortillas to answer the growing amount of questions about what role he played in one of democracy’s darkest days.
“The Democrats have basically corrupted every institution in America,” the congressman said Thursday.
The one who, on January 6, 2021, urged Congress to reject the duly certified results of the election in his own country.
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Rep. Andy Biggs hates the January 6 hearing. Now we know why
