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J6 testimony: unrequited misogyny and hate by Garrett Zeigler, aide to Peter Navarro [1]
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Date: 2022-07-20
Wotta guy, helping Peter Navarro with his 36-page report and using his security pass to let Mike Flynn and Sidney Powell into the Oval Office to explain using the military to seize voting machines.
“I loved two things all my life – sports and politics,” Garrett Zeigler admitted. “My dad’s second cousin, Ronald Ziegler, was a press secretary for President Nixon, but nobody else in my family has ever been involved with politics. But I’ve always been interested in that.”
He says that he isn’t a “fame f*g” and compares his livestream to @benshapiro's who he says is “selling solar yarmulkes” on his show.
x Garrett Ziegler, a former Trump WH aide, lost his mind after his interview with the @January6thCmte yesterday.
He accused the committee of being “anti-white” and referred to his female colleagues who spoke out against Trump as “thots and hoes.” pic.twitter.com/S7wOdH3tY1 — The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) July 20, 2022
Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to Trade Advisor Peter Navarro who acted as a key conduit between the Trump White House and the sprawling network of lawyers and conspiracy mongers promoting dubious election fraud theories in the final months of 2020, is expected to speak to the January 6th Committee on Tuesday morning.
Ziegler announced his interview in a message to his followers on Telegram at the stroke of midnight on Monday, writing, “Yours truly going before the scam committee on Tuesday morning. Such a joke, but don’t worry — I’ll do nothing but tell the truth: Trump did nothing wrong & the election was stolen!”
Fanatically loyal to Trump, Ziegler played a crucial role in facilitating an infamous late-night meeting in the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020 by using his access pass to usher lawyer Sidney Powell, retired Lt. General Michael Flynn and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne into the White House, where they proposed a plan to have the president invoke the Insurrection Act while ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines and re-run the election in states narrowly lost to Joe Biden.
The meeting, which ran for four and a half hours, devolved into a screaming match between the Powell camp and White House lawyers led by Chief Counsel Pat Cipollone, with the two sides nearly coming to blows. At the end, Trump reportedly appointed Powell to the ill-defined position of special counsel, although nothing seems to have come of the action. Byrne, who reportedly spoke to the January 6th Committee on July 15, recently told the far-right outlet Epoch Times that Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, told him he persuaded the president to reverse course by telling him that if they went forward with the plan “we’d all be in prison.”
Less than two hours after the raucous meeting broke up, Trump tweeted a call for his supporters to descend on Washington, DC on Jan. 6. Trump’s tweet included a link to the Navarro Report, which was prepared with Ziegler’s assistance. The president wrote, “Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud ‘more than sufficient’ to swing victory to Trump. A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
With Michael Trimarco preoccupied with his wife’s pregnancy and limited in his ability to fulfill his courier function, he said information from the researchers ensconced at the Westin often reached Trump before Giuliani knew about it.
“Ironically, a lot of the stuff that got back to Rudy didn’t end up coming through me,” Trimarco said. “Because once that connection was made, Garrett would give it to Peter, and Peter would give it to the president. And then it would circle back to Rudy.”
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x While gathering information and drafting the Navarro report, Ziegler worked with a research team that reported to Giuliani, according to Giuliani associate Michael Trimarco. — Resist hateful GOP policies (@hateGOP) April 11, 2022
x If Garrett Ziegler is correct that he is the least racist person that we have ever met, then we must be hanging out with some seriously racist people. Picnicking with David Duke. Lunching with Richard Spencer. Antiquing with Tucker Carlson. Netflix and chilling with Ann Coulter. — Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) July 20, 2022
x News from @JGreenblattADL and @CNN about Garrett Zeigler and the 5th at @January6thCmte I made a thread about Zeigler in May . He's financial donor status on gab no surprise. He has a history of anti-semitism and conspiracy on multiple ugly crazy platforms where he says a lot.
https://t.co/yosFWqDF2X pic.twitter.com/YIPSL4W9l3 — Nana Malcontent walks with Lincoln 🇺🇸 (@beccaturmo) July 20, 2022
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