GOP official under the bus

[struggle4progress]

Nov. 25, 2020, 10:07 AM EST
By Steve Benen

... Raffensperger .. suddenly finds himself persona non grata .. thanks to the president ...

Raffensperger ... failed to remember that the head of his party considers himself "the boss" ...

... two weeks ago .. the president reportedly directed .. Purdue and .. Loeffler to call for Raffensperger's resignation for reasons they struggled to articulate ...

Georgia's secretary of state .. supported the .. president .. financially and at the ballot box, but .. is .. joining the long list of people who've learned .. about Trump's limited .. fidelity ...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/under-bus-gop-official-learns-limits-trump-s-loyalties-n1248966

[keithbvadu2]

1. Trump's loyalty only goes one way - toward himself.

Trump's loyalty only goes one way - toward himself.

[question everything]

3. But this, too, shall pass

[struggle4progress]

2. Graham's ethics violations stand out

Nov. 24, 2020, 3:46 PM EST
By Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush and Claire O. Finkelstein, faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania

Republican .. organizations have continued .. unfounded allegations of voter fraud ... No such claim has survived legal scrutiny. The .. Department of Homeland Security .. said that the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history,” a statement that resulted in the firing of the director of that agency’s cybersecurity division ... Trump summoned Michigan Republican leaders to the White House to try to throw out the state's election results. Despite these efforts, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania have certified the results ...

A handful of Republican senators has particularly disgraced the .. Senate ... The most egregious example is .. Graham ...

...

Graham denies this account ... His denial is not plausible ... a staffer for Raffensberger, Gabriel Sterling, said “he participated in a controversial phone call with Sen. Lindsey Graham and claimed he heard Graham ask if state officials could throw out ballots.” Sterling and his family have received death threats and are now under 24-hour police protection ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/senate-republicans-georgia-bullying-failed-lindsey-graham-s-ethics-violations-ncna1248748

[Dagstead Bumwood]

4. Trump's bus is HUGE.

Room for plenty more Republicons under there.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Karma has a way of biting back. All of these thugs and such, asking if ballots can be thrown ...

away, etc. will pay the price. Mr. Biden needs to go after each and every one of these election thugs and re-install American respect in the election process ... figures that the GOP is back up to its old tricks of cheating etc., and they just got rid of the consent decree that was lifted against the GOP for its tricks and such.