Republican state legislators and elected officials detailed Tuesday the intense pressure they faced from President Trump and his lawyers to subvert the will of voters. “I will not break my oath,” Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers said in response.https://t.co/i0QAxHOxGz pic.twitter.com/1YE77OXOlm — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 21, 2022Bowers testified that Trump asked him to hold an official committee hearing at the Arizona Capitol and utilize a legal ability in Arizona to remove the electors of President Joe Biden and replace them. “That’s totally new to me,” Bowers recalled telling the former President. “I’ve never heard of any such thing.”“You are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath, when I swore to the Constitution to uphold it,” he added. “I also swore to the Constitution and the laws of the state of Arizona.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 22, 2022 18:16 UTC