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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) both stood up for We The People on Wednesday by eloquently explaining why the 2020 election needs to be investigated.
“This morning,” Gaetz began. “President Trump explicitly called for demonstrations and protests to be peaceful. He was far more — you can moan and groan — but he was far more explicit about his calls for peace than some of the BLM and left-wing rioters were this summer when we saw violence sweep across this nation.”
“Now, we came here today to debate. To follow regular order. To offer an objection. To follow a process that is expressly contemplated in our Constitution. And for doing that, we got called a bunch of seditious traitors. Not since 1985 has a Republican president been sworn in absent some Democrat effort to object the electors. But when we do it, it is the new violation of all norms.”
Matt Gaetz speech was fantastic.
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— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 7, 2021
Gaetz also told his colleagues a facial recognition software company allegedly identified Antifa members disguised as Trump supporters at the Capitol protest.
“I am sure glad that at least for one day, I didn’t hear my Democrat colleagues calling to defund the police,” Gaetz said, resulting in applause.
“Baseball teams that cheat and steal signs should be stripped of their championships, Russian Olympians who cheat and use steroids should be stripped of their metals and states that do not run clean elections should be stripped of their electors.”
“Our Article 3 Courts have failed by not holding evidentiary hearings to weigh the evidence,” Gaetz continued. “We should not join in that failure. We should vindicate the rights of states. We should vindicate the subpoenas in Arizona that have been issued to get a hold of these voting machines and we should reject these electors.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo) started his remarks by thanking Capitol Hill police and others who protected politicians from the crowd swarming the building.
He said, “When it comes to violence, this has been a terrible year in America. We’ve seen a lot of violence against law enforcement and we saw it here in the Capitol of the United States… Violence is not how you achieve change.”
“For those who have concerns about the integrity of our elections, for those who have concerns about what happened in November, this is the appropriate means, this is the lawful place where those objections and concerns should be heard.”
Moving along, Hawley focused on the state of Pennsylvania’s Constitution that was clearly abused in the 2020 election.
“Pennsylvania politicians passed a new law that allows universal mail-in balloting and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said. And then when Pennsylvania citizens tried to be heard on this subject before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, they were dismissed on grounds of procedure, timeliness, in violation of that Supreme Court’s own precedent. So, the merits of the case have never been heard, the constitutionality of the statute has never been defended, I’m not aware of any court that has passed on its constitutionality, actually I’m not aware of anybody who has defended the constitutionality.”
“This is the forum. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court hasn’t heard the case. There’s no other court to go to hear the case in the state, and so this is the appropriate place for these concerns to be raised,” he explained.
“We do need an investigation into irregularities, fraud, we do need a way forward together. We need election security reforms. I bet my friends on the other side of the aisle don’t disagree with that. We need to find a way to move forward on that together so the American people from both parties, all walks of life, can have confidence in their elections and that we can arrange ourselves under the rule of law that we share together.”