Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party/Gage Skidmore
Opinion: She even invoked her right against self-incrimination when asked if she was the AZGOP chair. Which, given her record, is understandable.
By EJ Montini || The Arizona Republic
Dr. Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, election denier, conspiracy spreader and fake Electoral College elector, was subpoenaed by the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and sat for a deposition on March 16.
The 68-page deposition has now been released.
In it, Ward states her name, solemnly swears “under the penalty of perjury” that the testimony she was about to give would be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing by the truth, and then, in response to the questions put forth to her by attorneys for the committee, proceeds to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 250 times.
Feel free to read the deposition yourself and check my math on that. One’s eyes tend to go buggy after a certain point.
And while Ward herself is not terribly forthcoming, there is much we might discern from the questions themselves, as well as her repeated answer. With that in mind, I thought I might share some of the exchanges with you.
She takes the 5th on being AZ GOP chair
