Will rally leader tattle on Gosar and Biggs?
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs don’t seem worried.
Or maybe they’re just really good actors.
Waiting.
Hoping.
“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander said before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that caused death, injuries and destruction that he had worked with Republicans Gosar, Biggs and Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks to organize the demonstration.
And since Jan. 6 he’s been underground. Hiding.
Alexander said of Biggs, Gosar, Brooks and himself, “We four schemed up a maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting.” The video was deleted from his social media but reposted on Twitter.
Biggs has denied any connection to Alexander. Gosar has remained mostly silent on the subject.
At a Dec. 19 rally in Phoenix, which Gosar attended and to which Biggs contributed a video, Alexander said, “We’re going to convince them to not certify the vote on January 6 by marching hundreds of thousands, if not millions of patriots, to sit their butts in D.C. and close that city down, right? And if we have to explore options after that ... ‘yet.’ Yet!”
Radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was at the Phoenix event.
During the Jan. 6 insurrection Alexander did an online interview in which he gestured toward the massive crowd of people behind him and said he did not “disavow” or “denounce” what was going on.
Though he since has said he didn’t instigate anything.
Of course, who knows what he’ll say if he ends up in a room with a couple of federal agents.
Still, Biggs and worried.
Gosar was more than comfortable to ditch his duties in Congress to fly to Florida and give a speech to the American First Political Action Conference, an event organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Biggs, meantime, has shifted from issuing worshipful press releases about Donald Trump to issuing derogatory press releases about Joe Biden.
He also recently condemned Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. She said of the former president, “I don’t believe he should be playing a role in the party.”
Biggs said about Cheney, “If she had any sense of shame, she would step down.”
If she had a sense of shame?
That’s a good one.
Sooner or later Alexander emerge from underneath the
Gosar
don’t seem will rock
Alexander said of Biggs, Gosar, Brooks and himself, “We four schemed up a maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting.” The video was deleted from his social media but reposted on Twitter.
where he’s hiding.
He’s been in trouble before. He changed his name to Ali Alexander from his birth name, Ali Akbar, after pleading guilty to felony property theft in 2007 and felony credit card abuse in 2008.
Gosar called him a “true patriot” on Twitter.
Biggs and Gosar want us to forget about the insurrection of Jan. 6 and the events leading up to it, particularly the way the discord was manufactured by lies about the election and wild conspiracy theories pushed by politicians more loyal to Trump than to their country or their oath of office.
They don’t seem worried.
Or maybe they’re just really good actors.