Comment A Trump administration aide who met with a House committee on Jan. 6 this week unleashed a 27-minute incendiary tirade, calling lawmakers’ investigation into the Capitol riot anti-white and using sexist slurs to describe his former colleagues who also filed. Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, revealed on his Telegram page that he appeared on Tuesday before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Hours later, Ziegler insisted without evidence that he was being targeted because of his race and released a lengthy audio recording calling the investigation a “Bolshevik anti-white campaign.” “If you can’t see that, your eyes are horribly closed,” Ziegler said. The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League also noted that Ziegler’s words “are often used as code for Jews.” “They see me as a young Christian that they can try to scare basically, right? And so, today I was just saying I’m invoking my right to remain silent,” Ziegler said, insisting he’s “the least racist person many of you have ever met, by the way. I have no fanaticism.” Ziegler also criticized former White House colleagues Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House communications director, who have both testified before the committee. He used sexist and offensive slang words to describe them and said they are “simply awful”. The audio surfaced online late Wednesday after it was released by the Republican Accountability Project, a group previously dedicated to opposing Trump. The House committee plans to hold its eighth public hearing this summer on Thursday. Garrett Ziegler, former Trump WH aide, lost his mind after his @January6thCmte interview yesterday. He accused the committee of being “anti-white” and referred to female colleagues who spoke out against Trump as “hoes.” pic.twitter.com/S7wOdH3tY1 — The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) July 20, 2022 Griffin did not comment publicly, but retweeted a post by ADL leader Jonathan Greenblatt on Twitter that called Ziegler’s language offensive. This is the kind of offensive language we usually associate with right-wing extremists, not former officials who had access to the Oval Office. — Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) July 20, 2022 In the excerpt, Ziegler said he was speaking from Illinois and had received a subpoena on April 28, but did not “express outrage” about it. He said flying to Washington for the hearing was a “pain” and that he found the whole experience “so one-sided” and lacking in Republican presence. The committee members “hate my former boss and by extension me.” He added that he invoked his right to remain silent more than 100 times in response to committee questions. Hutchinson appeared before the commission in late June in a live day of testimony. He testified that Trump knew his supporters were carrying guns on the day of the riot, but urged them to go to the Capitol anyway. Who is Cassidy Hutchinson? He also said he had cleaned Trump’s ketchup off the walls of the White House and begged Meadows to put down his phone and help quell the riot on Capitol Hill, among other claims. Trump dismissed her testimony as “false” and “fraudulent.” The former president also called the commission a “Kangaroo Court.” Visual: Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony from the January 6 hearing CNN first reported news of Ziegler’s audio clip, prompting a response from him online: “Ultimate liars! I love women,” he said. Ziegler then posted on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, that the media reports were “crap” and “vile” — and repeated his misogynistic insults about Hutchinson. Trump condemned the Jan. 6 attack in a three-minute speech on the afternoon of Jan. 7, after aides said his cabinet members were discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. But he has struggled to do so, according to people familiar with the work of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack. Even a day after Jan. 6, Trump refrained from condemning the violence
