Arizona GOP Chair pleads the Fifth in House Committee deposition

(KYMA, KECY/ AP News) - Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward refused to answer questions during a deposition of the House Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.

The details about Ward’s deposition came at a hearing where lawyers urged a federal judge to block the committee from getting her phone records while she appeals. 

A U.S. District Judge ruled in late September that Ward’s arguments that her phone call records should be secret did not pass legal muster.

Ward and her husband Michael Ward were presidential electors who would have voted for Donald trump in the electoral college had he won Arizona. Both signed a document falsely claiming they were Arizona’s true electors.