Denver Riggleman spent 8 months as an adviser to the Congressional committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot. Now he's written a book about his experience — called, 'The Breach.'
"There's some things that you do that you think you have to [do to] win," he said."I had a consultant who was correct. He said, 'hey, Denver, you gotta be a little bit crazy if you're gonna beat the crazier people on the right.'"
In Riggleman's case, conservatives in his district turned on his campaign in 2020, in part because he officiated a same-sex wedding for his campaign volunteers. That contributed to his loss of a primary contest against an ever more conservative opponent.He says he now regrets his support for Trump, and in 2020, he did not vote for the then-president.
"What we found in the texts was a road map to an insurrection fueled by apocalyptic propaganda," Riggleman writes in the book."It was a toxic stew of old-school zealotry and internet authoritarianism." "The first time I saw the Ginni Thomas texts, I called it a 'bourbon text,'" Riggleman said."You have to take a shot of bourbon to get through it."
"It's possible that Clarence Thomas didn't know about Ginni Thomas' activities not just around Jan. 6 and the election but through the years as a Republican activist," he said."But I don't know if it's probable."
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