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Capitol Attack: Trump’s Supporters Issued Threats To Election Officials

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Jun 22, 2022.

Yinka Akanbi

The select committee has conducted a nearly yearlong investigation into how Trump supporters invaded Congress on 6 January 2021
In the fourth public hearing so far, the panel heard from election workers in the states of Arizona and Georgia

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Trump supporters threatened election officials and their families after they refused to quash his 2020 defeat.

The speaker of Arizona’s statehouse, Rusty Bowers, told the congressional committee probing last year’s Capitol riot that the harassment continues to this day.

A Georgia voter counter said she was afraid to leave home after ex-President Donald Trump specifically targeted her.

The House of Representatives panel accuses Trump of an attempted coup.

The select committee has conducted a nearly yearlong investigation into how Trump supporters invaded Congress on 6 January 2021 to disrupt lawmakers as they certified Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

On Tuesday, in the fourth public hearing so far, the panel heard from election workers in the states of Arizona and Georgia. Biden defeated Trump in both states, which had previously backed Republicans for the White House.

“We received… in excess of 20,000 emails and tens of thousands of voice mails and texts, which saturated our offices and we were unable to work, at least communicate,” Bowers, speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, told the select committee.

The witness – who campaigned for Trump in 2020 – said the threats and insults have continued with protesters outside his house attempting to smear him as a paedophile.

“It was disturbing, it was disturbing,” Bowers said.

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He recalled Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani at one point telling him: “We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence.”

The panel also heard testimony from Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who became the targets of conspiracy theories in their jobs as election workers in Fulton County, Georgia.

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