Arizona Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers (R) shut down new claims from Donald Trump that they both agreed the 2020 election was stolen.

Bowers, a Trump voter who wanted the former president to win re-election in 2020, appeared before the January 6 Committee on Tuesday for their 4th day of hearings, which is focused on Team Trump’s attempts to pressure state officials into helping him overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Bowers is one of several state officials present to testify on the pressure campaign, and shortly before his testimony on Tuesday Trump issued a statement claiming Bowers agreed with him on the election being stolen:

Arizona Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers is the latest RINO to play along with the Unselect Committee. In November 2020, Bowers thanked me for getting him elected. He said he would have lost, and in fact expected to lose, if I hadn’t come along. During the conversation, he told me that the election was rigged and that I won Arizona. He said he got more votes than I did which could never have happened. In fact, he said without me, he would have been out of office, and he expected to be prior to my coming along, and big Arizona rallies. The night before the election he walked outside with his wife and saw the tremendous Trump enthusiasm and told her, “You know what? Maybe I will win after all”—and he did. Bowers should hope there’s not a tape of the conversation.

Bowers refused to go along with the effort, and Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) began his questioning by reading Trump’s statement to Bowers. On the subject of the election being “rigged,” as Trump says, Schiff asked Bowers “Did you have such a conversation with the president?”

“I did have a conversation with the president. That certainly isn’t it,” Bowers said. “There were parts of it that are true, but there are parts that are not.”

“Anywhere, anyone, anytime has said I said the election was rigged, that would not be true,” he added.

“And when the former president in his statement today claimed that you told him that he won Arizona, is that also false?” Schiff followed up.

“That is also false,” Bowers replied.

The hearing went on with Bowers taking question on Team Trump’s attempts to present him with allegations of election fraud. He said that Rudy Giuliani repeatedly failed to offer proof the election was massively corrupted by fraudulent votes from illegal immigrants and dead people.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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