arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didn t just refuse to participate in trump s campaign to, i don t know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didn t have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a rematch against biden, bowers had a change of heart and is now saying that he will never, ever vote for trump again. here s what he told abc news jon karl after being the subject of attacks from donald trump. i have thought at times someone born how he was and raised how he was and he has no idea what a hard life is, and what people have to go through in the real world. he has no idea what courage is. how do you explain the hold that he has, though, on republicans including a lot of repub
menendez, in for stephanie ruhle. and tonight, steve bannon is the first of trump s close aides to be convicted as a result of investigations into the capital capitol riot. i during washington found political advisor turn podcast or guilty of two counts of contempt of congress. those charges are the result of his refusal to comply with a january 6th committee subpoena. the verdict came hours after the committee s primetime hearing that saw white house insiders paint a damning portrait of a president choosing to allow a deadly insurrection to rage unchecked. tonight, the panel called today s bannon verdict, quote, a victory for the rule of law and an important affirmation of the select committees work. despite the guilty verdict, bannon and his lawyer remain defiant after the jury s decision win. the prosecutor missed one very important phrase, right? i stand with trump and the constitution. and i will never back off that. ever. this is [inaudible] what happened. this is
Former Arizona governor Jan Brewer, one of the most powerful Republicans in the state, at one time is working against the MAGA branch of the party in Maricopa County's elections this November. She has endorsed several incumbents in a series of county races this fall. Incumbents who are being challenged by far-right candidates.
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