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Mr. Mr. Alexander, as this was not a congressional hearing, witnesses are not invited or entitled to deliver an opening statement. However if you with like to deliver a brief statement on the record, we will allow you to do so now.

The I would like to.

Mr. Thank you. Proceed.

The Good morning, Chairman Thompson, members of the committee, and committee staff. My name is Ali Alexander. With my today are my legal counsel, Joseph McBride, Paul Kamenar, and unfortunately Baron Coleman who has been corresponding with you could not attend

I want to be crystal clear at the outset, I had nothing to do with any violence or law breaking that happened on January 6th. I had nothing to do with the planning of violence. I had nothing to do with the preparation of violence. I had nothing to do with the execution of violence.

Any suggestion to the contrary is factually false. Anyone who suggests that I had anything do with the unlawful activities of January 6th is wrong. They are either mistaken or lying. Period.

It is not uncommon in the aftermath of historic chaos and disruption to look for a bogeyman. After all, someone must be held accountable, right? As an Arab man and a Black man, an American, it is common for people who look like me to be blamed for things that we did not do. On top of that, my birth name can sound scary to the uninformed and uneducated. It has often been used as a weapon against me by both the left wing and the right wing. Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar, someone with that name, that terrifying must have done something wrong, right?