Paul Gosar's January 6 Tweet Resurfaces After Report He Offered Pardons to Rally Planners

A tweet issued by Representative Paul Gosar on January 6 has resurfaced following a report that the Republican offered pardons to those planning the protests in Washington, D.C.

The post, which encouraged Joe Biden to step back from his electoral victory, included a photo of the large crowd assembled at the Stop the Steal rally earlier that day.

"Biden should concede," Gosar wrote. "I want his concession on my desk tomorrow morning. Don't make me come over there."

Social media users re-upped the tweet in light of the Rolling Stone article published Sunday in which two pro-Trump rally organizers said they met with Gosar and other GOP lawmakers in the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack.

The two organizers, speaking to the magazine under the condition of anonymity, said Gosar specifically offered them the possibility of receiving a "blanket pardon" from former President Donald Trump in an "unrelated ongoing investigation to encourage them to plan the protests."

"Our impression was that it was a done deal," one organizer told Rolling Stone, "that he'd spoken to the president about it in the Oval...in a meeting about pardons and that our names came up. They were working on submitting the paperwork and getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to sign on as a show of support."

According to the magazine the two sources have been communicating with a select committee in the U.S. House of Representatives that is currently investigating the Capitol riots. The report also asserted it has "documentary evidence" to prove what the sources claimed.

Other lawmakers or members of their senior staff Rolling Stone reported as being "intimately involved" in the planning of Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election results include representatives Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louie Gohmert.

"We would talk to Boebert's team, Cawthorn's team, Gosar's team like back-to-back-to-back-to-back," said one of the organizers. "I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically."

A spokesperson for Greene told Rolling Stone that her involvement was limited to planning to object to the certification of Biden's election victory in Congress.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for any member involved in the planning of the January 6 riot to be expelled.

The January 6 attack left five people dead and dozens injured, including law enforcement officials. More than 600 people have been arrested for their participation in the Capitol riots.

Newsweek reached out to Gosar's office for comment.