The RNC Thinks Phony Electors Engaged in 'Legitimate Political Discourse'

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Will Saletan
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.@amandacarpenter makes a strong case that the censure of @Liz_Cheney & @AdamKinzinger was self-protection. The 1/6 committee has subpoenaed RNC members who posed as electors, and the censure's instigator, @David_Bossie, is a possible investigative target.

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The RNC Thinks Phony Electors Engaged in ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
The censure resolution was really about defending the phony electors.
9:25 AM · Feb 17, 2022

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-rnc-thinks-phony-electors-engaged-in-legitimate-political-discourse/

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At least a few RNC members have probably been stewing about the possibility of being investigated for a while, which might explain some of the white-hot hate toward Cheney and Kinzinger.

Although both representatives were censured by Republicans in their home states a year ago for impeaching Trump, RNC member and high-profile Trump ally David Bossie started making rumblings about expelling the pair from the GOP in late January of this year. What the RNC ultimately passed by voice vote has been described as a “watered down” version of what Bossie desired.

Bossie is no disinterested character when it comes to the Jan. 6th investigation. Given his reported participation in meetings at the Willard Hotel that the committee has scrutinized, Bossie has surely thought about whether he’ll get subpoenaed himself. It may only be a matter of time.

While the committee’s interest in Bossie is hypothetical, the committee did subpoena other RNC members last month. On January 28, the committee announced a wave of subpoenas for fourteen of the Republicans who called themselves “alternate electors” for former President Trump. These individuals submitted phony Electoral College certificates to Congress and the National Archives, bestowing upon themselves the titles “chairperson” and “secretary” of fake slates representing seven states Biden won: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. (As Philip Rotner noted last month, the New Mexico and Pennsylvania certificates are perhaps less legally problematic than the certificates from the other five states.)

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