Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) endorsed Donald Trump’s call to terminate the Constitution over false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“I support and agree with the former President. Unprecedented fraud requires unprecedented cure,” Gosar wrote in a since-deleted tweet, accompanied by a screenshot of Trump’s post on Truth Social.
Trump has received bipartisan condemnation since the post over the weekend in which he called for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” so he can be reinstated as president.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said “attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation, and should be universally condemned.”
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) called Trump’s attack on the Constitution an “affront to our Republic” and former Vice-President Mike Pence said everyone who aspires to serve in public office should make clear that they will support and defend the Constitution.
Trump has since claimed the media is spreading “DISINFORMATION & LIES,” about him wanting to terminate the Constitution though the original post in which he called for doing just that remains on his Truth Social feed.
Gosar was censured and stripped of his House committee assignments last year after he tweeted an anime video depicting him killing Democrats in Congress.
Anthony Foti, Gosar’s spokesperson told Insider in a statement that “low IQ” people misread the congressman’s tweet.
“No one in Congress has fought for Constitutional values more than Congressman Gosar. He is known as a strict constitutionalist for good reason. He has a decade of votes proving that,” Foti said. “President Trump has reissued his statement to clarify what he meant. Those who claim either Trump or Congressman Gosar don’t believe in the Constitution are acting in bad faith or are low IQ people unable to comprehend our language and our actions.”
