In an effort to avoid self-incrimination, Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward refused to answer questions before the Jan. 6 committee.
Kelli Ward, the head of Arizona’s Republican Party, declined to answer questions during her subpoenaed testimony before the House Select Committee investigating the Jan 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, a government attorney said in court on Tuesday.
The committee sought a log of phone calls and text exchanges to Ward’s phone from Election Day on 2020 through January 2021. That span of time included when Ward was part of a group of Republicans who met and falsely asserted themselves as Arizona’s presidential electors. Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol during the count, sending lawmakers fleeing the chambers. The certification was delayed for hours.
Laurin Mills, an attorney for Ward, told Humetewa that the case was on “thin ice” and said the consequences for the nation were dire should she rule in the government’s favor.“If you do this wrong,” Mills said, “you will set a precedent that is worse than the Capitol riot.”
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