WASHINGTON — Arizona’s top Republican legislator recounted on Tuesday how he resisted intensive pressure by President Donald J. Trump and his lieutenants to move unilaterally to overturn the results of the 2020 election in his state, as the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol delved further into their relentless bid to invalidate Mr. Trump’s defeat.
“I didn’t want to be used as a pawn,” Rusty Bowers, the speaker of the Arizona’s House of Representatives, testified. He told the panel that he had refused two entreaties from Mr. Trump and several more from his legal advisers, who said repeatedly that they had evidence of fraud sufficient to reverse the election outcome but never produced any.
“You are asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath,” Mr. Bowers said he had responded. He said he had received direct pressure to overturn his state’s election from Mr. Trump; Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer; Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona; and even Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas.
At its fourth hearing this month, the panel called state officials who could drive home what has been a repeated point of emphasis in its findings: that Mr. Trump knew — or should have known — that his lies about a stolen election, and the plans he pursued to stay in office, were wrong and unlawful, but that he pushed ahead with them anyway.
The committee emphasized that Mr. Trump and his top lawyers...
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