Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona on Capitol Hill on April 27, 2022.
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Far-right Rep. Paul Gosar endorsed Trump’s call to ‘terminate’ the Constitution over the 2020 election.
“Unprecedented fraud requires unprecedented cure,” he wrote on Twitter.
Kevin McCarthy has pledged to let Gosar serve on committees again after he was censured last year.
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, among the farthest-right lawmakers in Congress, endorsed on Wednesday former President Donald Trump’s call to “terminate” the Constitution over false claims of a stolen 2020 election.
“I support and agree with the former President,” Gosar wrote in a tweet that included a screenshot of Trump’s original post on Truth Social, his proprietary social media website. “Unprecedented fraud requires unprecedented cure.”
—Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) December 7, 2022
On Saturday, the former president said that the “Massive Fraud” of the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
Since then, Trump has claimed that the notion he wants to terminate the Constitution is “DISINFORMATION & LIES,” though the original post remains up and he has continued to argue that he should be installed as president.
Gosar, who swore an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution like every other member of Congress, was previously censured and removed from committees in the House after he tweeted an anime video depicting him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Since then, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pledged to return Gosar to his committees when Republicans reassume control of the chamber, musing at one point that he may even have better committee assignments next time.