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US POLITICS
JANUARY 6TH HEARINGS
Trump White House aide goes on sexist tirade, calls Jan. 6 panel ‘anti-White’

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol held a hearing in Washington on July 12. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/21/garrett-ziegler-rant-trump-jan-6/

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Trump White House aide goes on sexist tirade, calls Jan. 6 panel ‘anti-White’

Written by Adela Suliman

Updated July 21, 2022 at 11:01 a.m. EDT ... Published July 21, 2022 at 8:03 a.m. EDT

A Trump administration aide who met with the House Jan. 6 committee this week unleashed a 27-minute inflammatory tirade, calling the lawmakers’ investigation into the Capitol riot racist against White people and using sexist slurs to describe his former colleagues who also testified.

Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, revealed on his Telegram page that he appeared Tuesday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Hours later, Ziegler said without evidence that he was being targeted due to his race and posted a lengthy audio file calling the probe “a Bolshevistic anti-White campaign.”

“If you can’t see that, your eyes are freaking closed,” Ziegler said. The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League noted that Ziegler’s words are “often used as a code for Jews.”

“They see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right? And so, today was just a lot of saying that I invoke my right to silence,” Ziegler said, while insisting he is “the least-racist person that many of you have ever met, by the way. I have no bigotry.” Ziegler also lashed out at former White House colleagues Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, an ex-White House communications director, who have both testified before the committee. He used sexist and offensive slang words to describe them and said they are “just terrible.” The audio circulated online late Wednesday after it was posted by the Republican Accountability Project, a group previously dedicated to opposing Trump. The House committee plans to hold its eighth public hearing this summer on Thursday.

Griffin has not publicly commented but reshared a post from ADL leader Jonathan Greenblatt on Twitter that called Ziegler’s language offensive.

In the clip, Ziegler said he was speaking from Illinois and had received a subpoena on April 28 but didn’t “throw a tantrum” about it. He said flying in to Washington for the hearing was “a pain” and that he found the whole experience “so one-sided” and lacking a Republican presence. Committee members “loathe my former boss and by extension me,” he added. He said that he invoked his right to silence “over 100 times” in response to questions from the committee. Hutchinson appeared before the committee in late June in an explosive and vivid day of testimony. She testified that Trump knew his supporters were carrying weapons the day of the riot but urged them to go to the Capitol anyway. She also said she had cleaned up Trump-strewn ketchup off a White House wall and pleaded with Meadows to get off his phone and help quell the Capitol riot, among other claims. Trump has dismissed her testimony as “fake” and “fraudulent.” The former president has also called the committee a “Kangaroo Court.” CNN first reported news of the Ziegler audio clip, prompting a reply from him online: “Total liars! I cherish women,” he said. Ziegler also posted on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social that the media reports were “hit pieces” and “vicious” — and repeated his misogynistic insults of Hutchinson. Even a day after Jan. 6, Trump balked at condemning the violence Trump condemned the Jan. 6 attack in a three-minute speech the evening of Jan. 7 after aides told him that members of his Cabinet were discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. However, according to individuals familiar with the work of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, he struggled to do so. By Adela Suliman Adela Suliman is a breaking-news reporter in The Washington Post's London hub. Twitter Visual: Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony from the Jan. 6 hearing Who is Cassidy Hutchinson?

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