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Former Trump Aide Publishes Racist, Sexist Tirade After Meeting Jan. 6 Committee

HeadlineJul 21, 2022

A former White House aide to Donald Trump went on a racist and sexist rant this week, just after he met with the lawmakers investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Garrett Ziegler posted the 27-minute rant as an audio file to his Telegram page, where he verbally attacked witnesses who’ve provided damning testimony against the former president — and railed against leaders of the House select committee on the January 6 attack.

Garrett Ziegler: “They’re Bolsheviks, so they probably do hate the American founders and most white people in general. This is a Bolshevistic, anti-white campaign. If you can’t see that, your eyes are freaking closed. And so, they see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right?”

Ziegler went on to use misogynistic epithets to attack two former women colleagues who testified against Trump: Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah.

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