In Case You Missed It, corrupt politician Adam Laxalt is facing local and national scrutiny after CNN revealed his senior aide was present for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal highlighted Laxalt’s extensive history of promoting the Big Lie. As the co-chair of Donald Trump’s campaign, Laxalt has been called “face of” the Big Lie in Nevada and orchestrated failed lawsuit after failed lawsuit to stop a peaceful transfer of power.

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Las Vegas Review Journal: Laxalt campaign aide confirms attending Jan. 6 insurrection at Capitol

Nick Robertson // 7.20.22

Key points: 

• The communications director for Adam Laxalt’s U.S. Senate campaign confirmed Wednesday that she was at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
• Courtney Holland, who was hired by the campaign earlier this month as its chief spokesperson, was scheduled to speak at a “Stop the Steal” rally in front of the Capitol on Jan. 6. That rally was cancelled, but she then walked with a crowd to the Capitol building led by three members of the Oath Keepers extremist militia group, according to a CNN investigation.
• Laxalt, who is facing Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in November for her U.S. Senate seat, worked for former president Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in Nevada in 2020. A former state attorney general, he used his legal experience to advocate for contesting Nevada’s results in the 2020 election by filing lawsuits against the state.
• He claimed, without evidence, that there were “thousands of illegal votes” in the 2020 election in Nevada.
• In June, he attended an event with governor candidate and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and Donald Trump Jr. that featured multiple speakers who claimed election fraud. Earlier this month, he and Lombardo shared the stage with Trump himself as he falsely claimed that he won the 2020 election.

CNN: Top spokeswoman for Nevada Republican Senate nominee marched on Jan. 6 with Oath Keepers, including one charged with sedition

Andrew Kaczynski // 7.19.22

Key points:

• The new communications director for the Republican Senate nominee in Nevada — a key state that could determine control in Washington — marched to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, with two members of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers including one who was later charged with sedition and another with breaking into the Capitol and at least two others who were charged for illegally entering the building, according to videos reviewed by CNN’s KFile.
• Courtney Holland, a Nevada-based political activist who does not appear to have entered the Capitol building herself and has not been charged with crimes related to January 6, was named Adam Laxalt’s top spokeswoman in early July.
• Holland traveled to Washington, DC, for the January 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally where she was listed as a speaker for a rally to be held near the Capitol following then-President Donald Trump’s speech near the White House.
• Following Trump’s rally, Holland was part of a group that now-included four other scheduled speakers for the second rally that made their way toward the Capitol guided by three Oath Keepers, according to videos and photos reviewed by CNN’s KFile. Holland said in a statement to CNN on Tuesday that she did not know the men, describing them as “security.” Two of those Oath Keepers, Kenneth Harrelson and Jason Dolan, have since been charged by the Department of Justice for their role in the Capitol attack. Also walking with Holland was Dr. Simone Gold, an anti-vaccine doctor who pleaded guilty in March to entering the Capitol and was recently sentenced to 60 days in jail, and John Strand, a co-defendant in her case who has pleaded not guilty.
• Holland later repeatedly downplayed the attack, retweeting false claims suggesting the riot was the work of the far-left group Antifa and a tweet calling the protest “the largest civil rights protest in history.”
• Videos on social media and YouTube show Holland marching to the Capitol with her hand on Harrelson’s shoulder. The group appears to be led at points by an unidentified man in a blue blazer wearing an Oath Keepers sweatshirt. The group walked in a “stack” formation that the Department of Justice said the Oath Keepers used to move through crowds on January 6, 2021.
• One video, released by the Department of Justice to news organizations in the case against Harrelson, shows a cell phone video shot by the Oath Keeper on the east side of the Capitol with several members of the stack formation together, including what seems to be Holland.
• Following the riot and aftermath, Holland said in since-deleted tweets she would still stand up for Trump.
• “Last time I checked the Constitution it said ‘We the People’ not ‘We the Government,'” she said just after the attack, and added in another tweet, “I’m still not giving up on fighting for Trump.”
• A year later, Holland maintained on Instagram the riot was “not an insurrection.”

Raw Story: Nevada Senate candidate’s spox marched with Oath Keepers to the Capitol on J6: report

Bob Brigham // 7.19.22

Key Points: 

• ​​​​CNN Kfile “scoop team” on Tuesday released bombshell conclusions it came to after an extensive examination of Jan. 6 video.
• “The new communications director for the Republican Senate nominee in Nevada – a key state that could determine control in Washington – marched to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, with two members of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers including one who was later charged with sedition and another with breaking into the Capitol and at least two others who were charged for illegally entering the building, according to videos reviewed by CNN’s KFile,” Andrew Kaczynski reported.
• Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt is running for U.S. Senate against Sen. Catherine Cortez Mastro (D-NV) after losing the 2018 governor’s race.
• Laxalt, the son of former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and grandson of former Gov. and Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-NV), was endorsed by Donald Trump last August.

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