GOP's top lawyer called election fraud arguments by Trump's lawyers a 'joke', could mislead millions

[Nevilledog]

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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Dear #MAGA

Email
Date: Nov. 28, 2020
From: GOP Chief Counsel
To: Former GOP Spokeswoman

“What Rudy and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting laughed out of court."

"They are misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking..."

The Republican Party’s top lawyer called election fraud arguments by Trump’s lawyers a ‘joke’ that...
Justin Riemer, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, sought to discourage a Republican Party staffer from posting debunked claims about ballot fraud on RNC accounts, according to an...
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2:34 PM · Jul 12, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rnc-trump-stop-the-steal/2021/07/12/79e58a02-e320-11eb-934f-7e6c1927f261_story.html

The Republican Party’s top lawyer warned in November against continuing to push false claims that the presidential election was stolen, calling efforts by some of the former president’s lawyers a “joke” that could mislead millions of people, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.

Justin Riemer, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, sought to discourage a Republican Party staffer from posting claims about ballot fraud on RNC accounts, the email shows, as attempts by Trump and his associates to challenge results in a number of states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, intensified.

“What Rudy and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting laughed out of court,” Riemer, a longtime Republican lawyer, wrote to Liz Harrington, a former party spokeswoman on Nov. 28, referring to Trump attorneys Rudolph W. Giuliani and Jenna Ellis. “They are misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking that the president is going to somehow win this thing.”

The email from Riemer to Harrington came about six weeks before Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and it shows that key figures in the party were privately disturbed by the false claims being made about the election by Trump and his supporters — even if they did not say so publicly.

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. "Even If They Did Not Say So, Publicly"

I am unsurprised that these cowards were keeping silent as lies were promulgated that led to an attempt at violent insurrection.
It makes me wonder that, if enough of these people had found a spine in November, it may have stopped this "movement" before it had inertia.

[The Magistrate]

2. Exactly, Sir

"Courage is the form all virtue must take at the sticking place."


"A coward dies a thousand times, a brave man only once."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. These assholes need to be disbarred

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