Arizona GOP Official Says Family Threatened With Slaughter After He Defended Election’s Integrity – By Jason Lemon (Newsweek) / Aug 7 2021
A Republican official from Arizona’s Maricopa County warned that people have threatened to slaughter the families of local leaders after they stood up for the integrity of the 2020 election, as former President Donald Trump and other Arizona GOP lawmakers attempt to undermine it.
Bill Gates, a Republican member of Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors representing District 3, spoke with CNN on Friday regarding the threats he and other county leaders have received as they’ve pushed back against lies and misinformation being spread about the last election.
Arizona’s state Senate Republicans have been working with Florida-based Cyber Ninjas to conduct a widely panned audit of the state’s 2020 election results, driven by former President Donald Trump’s debunked allegations that President Joe Biden won there through fraud.
“Unfortunately, the threats continue and they’re not simply organic. They’re being driven, unfortunately, by members of the Arizona state Senate and other Republicans across the country,” Gates told CNN. “We receive phone calls into our offices at the Board of Supervisors, our staff, you know saying that our families are gonna be slaughtered. And threatening us to stop standing up for the good elections’ workers of Maricopa County.”
