Mr Bowers, speaking on condition of anonymity, also told House select committee about the harassment he experienced outside his home by Trump supporters in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, in which he was called a “pedophile” and other patches. Mr. Bowers, who spoke of the Constitution in reverent and spiritual terms, had tears in his eyes as he described his seriously ill daughter enduring some of the harassment outside their home. (Died in late January.) “It was worrying,” he said. “It was annoying.” Attempts to persuade him to take action to reverse the result in Mr. Trump’s Arizona column — the state won by Joseph R. Biden Jr. — began under pressure from Mr. Trump and one of his attorneys, Rudolf B. Giuliani. , who claimed to have evidence of fraud. “Aren’t we all Republicans here? “I would have thought we would have had a better reception,” Bowsers recalled, as Mr Giuliani once said. Shortly after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, certified the state for Mr. Biden, Mr. Giuliani and a colleague, Jenna Ellis, met with Arizona lawmakers, including Mr. Bauemiers. Bowers. Mr Bowers described Ms Ellis as saying they had evidence of widespread voter fraud but did not provide any. “I said, ‘I want the names. Do you have the names of the supposedly dead or deceived voters? ” said Mr. Bowers. “She said yes.” Nothing was produced. Finally, he recalls, Mr. Giuliani said, “We have many theories. We just don’t have proof. ” Mr Bowers also recalled speaking to Mr Trump, making it clear to the president that he “would not do anything illegal for him”, said one of the respondents, Adam Adam Siff, a Democrat from California. However, another lawyer advising Trump, John Eastman, called Mr Bowers in early January and urged him to schedule a legislative vote to “certify voters because we had a plenary to do so.” Mr Eastman, Mr Bowers testified, said he should “just do it and let the courts find it all”. Mr. Bowers again rejected the impulse, saying: “I took an oath – for me to accept it, to do whatever you do would be contrary to my oath.” Finally, as he testified, there was a call from another Trump supporter, Representative Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, on the morning of January 6, 2021, when the Electoral College vote was to be confirmed by a joint congressional hearing. Mr. Biggs, he said, pushed him again to revoke the state voter certification for Mr. Biden. “We have no legal way” to “execute such a request,” Mr Bowers said. He also recalled his reaction when he learned that Trump advisers had launched a plan to put up “alternate” voter boards. “I thought of the book, ‘The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight,’” Mr. Bowers said. Mr. Bowers’s personal diary contained an entry in which he said, “I do not want to be a winner by cheating. “I will not play by laws to which I swore allegiance.” He was invited to read it in testimony. He was also asked to react to a statement by Mr Trump criticizing Mr Bowers’s testimony in advance, claiming that Mr Bowers had told him the election was “rigged” and that the state had won. “I had a conversation with the president,” Mr Bowers said. “Certainly not this.” A little while later, more emphatically, he said: “Everywhere, anyone, at any time said that I said the election was rigged – that would not be true.”
