Video footage taken Thursday evening showed a man attempting to give Alexander and his lawyers a summons to a civil suit. The video appears to have been taken just after Alexander gave his committee deposition.
In the video, Alexander and his lawyers refuse to take the papers. However, the server follows the men to their ride-share vehicle. He then places the papers inside the vehicle and announces that the papers have been duly served. The civil suit’s details were unclear.
Alexander arrived for his deposition with his lawyer Joseph McBride and conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl, according to CNN. He also gave members of the media a copy of the opening statement he planned on making to the committee.
“I had nothing to do with any violence or lawbreaking that happened on January 6,” his statement read. “I had nothing to do with the planning. I had nothing to do with the preparation. And I had nothing to do with the execution. Any suggestion to the contrary is factually false.”
He said that videos from the January 6 Capitol riots showed that members of the “Stop the Steal” rally had tried to stop people from being violent or entering the Capitol building.
“I went from living the American Dream to experiencing an American Nightmare where my skin color, birth name, party affiliation, ability to earn a living, belief that Christ is King, and concerns about election irregularities have been weaponized against me,” Alexander’s statement continued. “But I can assure you I have nothing to hide because I’ve done nothing wrong.”
Before entering the building to give his deposition, Alexander said he planned to cooperate, but also pledged to invoke his constitutional rights if he felt he couldn’t cooperate.
“We’ve got tons of evidence for them,” Alexander said before attending the closed-door deposition hearing. “We’ve provided the committee with thousands of records, hundreds of pages. And you know, unfortunately, I think that this committee has gone way too much into our personal life, way too much into my First Amendment. But I do recognize they have a legislative duty to conduct it, so we’re here to cooperate.”
In a now-deleted October video, Alexander said that he “schemed” with Republican Representatives Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona as well as Mo Brooks of Alabama “to put maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting” to certify the election on January 6.
Gosar and Alexander both spoke at a December 19 “Stop the Steal” rally in Phoenix, Arizona. At the rally, Alexander called Biggs a “friend” and a “hero.”
Spokesmen for Biggs and Brooks denied that the Congress members heard from Alexander or helped him organize the rally, The Washington Post reported.
In the committee’s subpoena to Alexander, it said that he had made “repeated reference during Stop-the-Steal-sponsored events [and] the possible use of violence to achieve the organization’s goals.” The subpoena also said that Alexander claimed to have coordinated with the White House and Congress members in the run-up to January 6.
In late December, Alexander said via social media that he was planning a rally for January 6. In a December 30, 2020 tweet, Alexander wrote that if Democrats blocked Republican plans to challenge Biden’s win, “Everyone can guess what me and 500,000 others will do to [the Capitol] building.”
“1776 is always an option,” he wrote in the tweet. “These degenerates in the deep state are going to give us what we want, or we are going to shut this country down.”
