Outgoing GOP congressman slams Republican leaders for 'lying to America'

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) on Sunday slammed members of the Republican Party for “lying to America” about the 2020 presidential election, Politico reports.

Speaking with CBS’ Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation,” Buck insisted, “Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America.”

He continued:

Everyone who makes the argument that January 6 was, you know, an unguided tour of the Capitol is lying to America. Everyone who says that the prisoners who are being prosecuted right now for their involvement in January 6, that they are somehow political prisoners or that they didn’t commit crimes, those folks are lying to America.

Buck, who Politico’s Kelly Garrity reports signed a December 2020 amicus brief spearheaded by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that supported “a longshot legal scheme in Texas” to “undo the 2020 election results,” argued that his support of a judicial challenge was “absolutely proper.”

“I signed on to that brief also and I believe that going through the courts to challenge an election is absolutely proper and it’s been done dozens of times in American history,” Buck said, “What’s wrong is to try to stop a legal function, a legislative function like counting the votes in an election, as happened on January 6.”

Watch the interview below or at this link.