The report chronicles members’ social media activity in public forums just before the November election and just after the January 6 riot. The report has been online for a week.
In a preamble to the report, Lofgren – the chairman of the House’s Management Committee – wrote that she asked her team to pull the relevant social media posts and compile them in an effort to gather facts.
“Any appropriate disciplinary action is a matter not only of the constitution and the law, but also of fact,” wrote the California Democrat. “Many of former President Trump’s false statements were made in very public settings. Did members make similar public statements in the weeks and months prior to the January 6 attack? Statements that are readily available in the public arena can be part of any consideration Congress “constitutional prerogatives and responsibilities. “
Lofgren continued, “Consequently, I asked my team to take a quick look at the public social media posts of members who voted to revoke the 2020 presidential election.”
“Like ex-President Trump, any elected member of Congress who helped and incited the insurrection or incited the attack seriously threatened our democratic government. They would have betrayed their oath and would be implicated in the same constitutional provision cited in the Impeachment Article,” Lofgren wrote in its preface to the report. “This provision prohibits anyone who has already taken an oath as a member of Congress to support the Constitution, but subsequently became involved in an insurrection or rebellion in serving in Congress.”
The report features a collection of social media posts and tweets that span dozens of pages from Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona, where he urges supporters to “hold the line”, days before what would become the Capitol uprising. In another social media post included in the report, Gosar wrote that “sedition and betrayal by stealing votes are appropriate”.
CNN contacted Gosar’s office for comment.
Annie Grayer of CNN contributed to this report.