Excellent rundown on what I call the “new Trump owned and
operated GOP” here from MSNBC – shows just how
underhanded, slick, and devious this “new” Trump GOP truly is with this
headline (formatted to fit the blog):
“Newly leaked RNC
emails reveal a truly cynical GOP reality”
Intro: They have either kept quiet about their concerns or been excommunicated
from their roles. Instead, the loudest voices in the GOP are the ones who are
actively promoting Trump's lies. But even those who are remaining quiet are
content to use those lies to further their own agendas.
Background &
Highlights: The Washington Post reported Tuesday that one of those GOP
leaders, Justin Riemer, was trying to get his colleagues to see sense back in November.
Riemer, is the RNC’s chief counsel. He wrote in an email to a staffer (Liz Harrington, a former party spokeswoman) that the RNC shouldn't post Trump's claims about ballot fraud on its social media accounts. And he didn't mince words in his November 28 email: “What Rudy and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting laughed out of court.” (He was referring to Trump attorneys Rudolph Giuliani and Jenna Ellis). “They are misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking that the president is going to somehow win this thing.”
Giuliani reportedly tried — and failed — to get Riemer fired
after he learned about that email. If you look at the RNC's position since
then, you can see two things are true:
First: That the committee on the whole followed Riemer's
advice and hasn't on the whole claimed that the election was stolen from Trump.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel never signed off on the wildest lies Trump put
out there and has conceded that Joe Biden won.
Second: The RNC has apparently decided that lying through
omission isn't a sin. Because while the party's apparatchiks aren't touting the
“Big Lie” directly, they are still backing Trump and using him to strengthen
their fundraising efforts.
For example, Politico reported in May that the RNC had sent 97 emails mentioning Trump to its mailing list since January 6. It didn’t and still isn't condemning candidates who blast out conspiracy theories, or refusing to offer them funding and campaign infrastructure.
You can also see that when the committee chooses to speak out, e.g., when Republicans like Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) tried to tell the truth, the GOP House replaced her with a hardcore Trump supporter, Elise Stefanik from NY.
(My insert: She is my Rep. in the House serving in the 21st CD of Upstate NY).
The RNC isn't sticking its neck out to back them up. But the
committee is more than happy to spend time, money, and effort to defend laws
that hinder voting, like the one GA just passed — laws that have Trump's
lies to thank for their popularity among the GOP base and swift adoption.
Let's be clear: Riemer disagreed with Giuliani and Ellis only because they went too far. As The Washington Post reported, he was concerned that their antics were damaging a broader GOP campaign to promote “election integrity” as an issue.
Ahead of the 2020 election, the RNC was more than happy to join the Trump campaign's efforts to block mail-in voting during the pandemic because it would help Democrats vote.
Those “millions of people who have wishful thinking
whom Riemer warned about are still being misled, even if it's not the RNC
saying that Trump should be the real president. They're just fans of the people
who are.
My 2 Cents: I can’t wait to hear the official RNC input, but more so, to hear Trump’s response to this leaked email.
As we know, Trump hates leakers and just recently said that leaker about Trump hiding the W/H bunker during the George Floyd riots should be “tried and executed for treason.”
Yeah, that's the kind of America Trump wants and needs: A one-man, iron-fisted, my-way-only-rule.
That must not happen: Never, ever. So, I say, wake up Republicans. You say you love America etc., etc., well prove it – disown Trump now - the sooner the better for you and all of us, too.
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