Rusty Bowers, a Republican spokesman for Arizona’s statute, gave an emotional testimony Tuesday about the impact his role in challenging the scheme to nullify election results had on him and his family. state, describing “disturbing” protests outside his home and, at one point, reading a passage from his personal diary about friends who had rejected him.
Appearing at the fourth public hearing of the select committee of the House, Bowers spoke while talking about the impact that the protests of this house had on his wife and daughter, who at that time was at home seriously ill and was “upset by what was going on outside.” . “
“It’s the new pattern or pattern in our lives worrying about what’s going to happen on Saturdays because we have multiple groups,” Bowers said. “They had trucks with video panels with my video, proclaiming me a pedophile and a pervert and a corrupt politician.”
On one occasion, Bowers said, among the protesters was a gunman who appeared to be associated with far-right militant group Three Percenters.
“There was a gentleman who had all three bars on his chest and had a gun and was threatening my neighbor,” Bowers said.
Earlier, reading a December 2020 post he had made in his personal diary, Bowers was thrilled when he described the loss of friends as a result of his position and how his faith helped him make decisions.
“It’s painful that the friends who have helped me so much are turning against me with so much resentment,” Bowers said.
“I may, in the eyes of men, not have the right opinions or act according to their vision or convictions, but I do not take this current situation lightly, fearfully or vengefully. I do not want to be a winner by cheating,” he said. to say.
Listen to Bowers read his December 2020 newspaper entry in the midst of Trump’s pressure campaign: