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On Saturday, Trump proposed ending rules in the constitution that led to controversial voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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While getting a backlash from GOP senators on the comment, Rep. Paul Gosar agreed with Trump in a now-deleted tweet.
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Rep. Liz Cheney resurfaced in Gosar’s tweet, calling for House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy to convict the former president.
GOP Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming called out Representative Paul Gosar’s now-deleted tweet endorsing former President Donald Trump and calling for the “termination” of rules and regulations in the Constitution that he claimed led to fraud in the presidential election of 2020 had led.
In a post on Truth Social posted this weekend, the former president again praised the baseless “massive and widespread fraud and deceit” he says took place in the 2020 election. He suggested throwing out the election results or calling new elections entirely blaming unspecified U.S. laws and regulations that led to his defeat.
“A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those in the Constitution,” he wrote on Truth Social Saturday. “Our great ‘founders’ did not and would not condone false and fraudulent elections!”
Following backlash from GOP senators to his call to end the US Constitution, Trump attempted to reverse his remarks on Monday.
“The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American people that I said I wanted to ‘end’ the Constitution. This is just more DISINFORMATION & LIES,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Despite other GOP lawmakers condemning the former president’s comments, Gosar, a Republican from Arizona, tweeted Trump’s Saturday Truth Social message in support of the former president.
“Unprecedented fraud requires an unprecedented remedy,” Gosar wrote in the now-deleted tweet.
Gosar spokesman Anthony Foti told Insider’s Bryan Metzger that bad faith actors and “low IQ people” misread the tweet, prompting the Arizona legislature to remove the tweet.
“No one in Congress has fought for constitutional values more than Congressman Gosar. He’s known as a strict constitutionalist for a reason. He has a decade of votes to prove it,” Foti said. “President Trump has reissued his statement to clarify what he meant. Those who claim that Trump or Congressman Gosar do not believe in the Constitution are either acting in bad faith or are low IQ people who cannot understand our language and our actions. “
Cheney weighed in on the discourse on Twitter later Wednesdaysharing a screenshot of Gosar’s deleted tweet and tagging House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
“Did you see this tweet before @RepGosar deleted it?” she wrote, addressing McCarthy. “Time to condemn Trump already?”
Cheney last week too addressed McCarthy on Twitterasking the House GOP leader for his “condemnation of Donald Trump for meeting with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, the pro-Putin leader of the America First Political Action Conference.”
“Last week you wouldn’t condemn Trump for dinner with Fuentes & West,” Cheney tweeted Tuesday. “Trump said this week that we have to end all rules, ordinances, etc. ‘Even those in the Constitution’ to overturn the election. Are you so utterly principled that you won’t condemn this too?”
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