Ex-Arizona GOP house speaker confirms FBI interviewed him for hours in election probe

Former Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers on Wednesday said he was investigated by federal officers in the special counsel investigation over allegations of election interference.

Bowers said the FBI interview occurred around three months ago during an appearance on CNN Primetime with Kaitlan Collins.

“I offered them nothing new,” Bowers said. “They seem to have a good grasp on all the testimony that I’d given, and all of the interviews that I had given to The Arizona Republic and people from The Washington Post."

“They were very aware of the January 6 committee testimony that I gave. There may have been something that I said that was of interest, but I don't remember anything standing out that had not been mentioned before.”

He said he doesn’t remember turning over any documents to the FBI but noted that he’d given some to his attorney and retains many himself.

“I don’t know if they’re important or not,” he added

“I have ‘proof’, whatever that meant. That was the proof that I'd asked for, but it's hardly the proof that I sought.”

Asked to describe the documents, Bowers said he told Trump administration officials “I want the names of all the illegal aliens. I want the names of all of the dead people, I want the names of all of the service people who had the documents stolen, etc, etc, etc. And they said we've got ’em, we’ll give them to you."

The ex-official added:

“I said that's the proof I need in order to have any semblance of the necessary threshold that you do something this big. Now we're talking about what, a year and a half ago, or more, and that never came but I did finally get what was they considered proof and it was a couple of letters from a legal professor. It was a term paper from one of my colleagues on this theory of law. It was several things that were entertaining and a bunch of tear sheets for ballots, were in the ballot entries and exits of the ballots in their ballot lots that came into the elections officials. There was no names, nothing else. So tongue squarely in my cheek I say it's the proof and and that's all the proof I ever got.”

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