RNC plan for 2020 denialist to head 'election integrity' unit raises alarms

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Mon 1 Apr 2024 06.00 EDT


As Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has cemented its hold on the Republican National Committee (RNC), alarms are being raised about the organisation’s tapping of the fervent election denialist Christina Bobb to run an “election integrity” unit. Bobb is a former Trump lawyer and ex-reporter for the far-right One America News Network, who gained prominence after Trump’s 2020 loss for promoting bogus fraud charges in Arizona, Wisconsin and elsewhere, and was part of Trump-backed efforts to substitute fake electors for ones that Joe Biden won in some states.

Bobb helped spread phoney voting fraud claims with Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the former campaign operative Mike Roman, both of whom along with Trump and others face charges in Fulton county, Georgia, of conspiring to overturn Biden’s win there; Bobb was not charged.

Last year Bobb wrote Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024, a book that was chock full of baseless charges about 2020 election fraud. Former judges, ex-Republican congressmen and election watchdogs voice strong concerns about Bobb’s mission and the potential dangers posed by her flood of erroneous charges of voting fraud.

“By designating Bobb to the RNC post, they’re beginning to promulgate the same false narrative of widespread election fraud that we saw in 2020 and 2021 but way earlier,” said John Jones, a former federal judge in Pennsylvania and now president of Dickinson College. “There’s a concept known as illusory truth,” he added. “If you keep saying these same falsehoods over and over, people begin to believe they’re true, and it has the potential to morph into violence. That puts judges, prosecutors and others at risk.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/republican-election-integrity-denier

[Escurumbele]

1. No wonder I have started hearing bells in my head, it is the number of "raised alarms" that we have experienced

since the buffoon announced his candidacy in 2015...Everyone "raises alarms" and that is where it ends...

[maxsolomon]

2. Is there a single person who is surprised?

I doubt John Jones is surprised.

[ShazzieB]

3. Not at all surprised here.

Anyone who hasn't already figured out that Trump has taken complete control of the RNC over the RNC has not been paying attention.

[maxsolomon]

4. The intent is to enrich Trump

If he wins, fine, but that's a secondary consideration.

And frankly, he's got no one to staff it with but deniers. They're the only people he trusts now.

[Grins]

5. Bobb was in the aptly named "War Room" at the ...

…Willard Hotel with Giuliani, Stone, the Proud Boys, and other seditionist coup attempters on the 4th and 5th of January. She deserves to be disbarred and imprisoned. And any media that skips asking her about her role should be shamed.*

* They won’t. They never do. They will lap onto the next story in a second when the biggest one is right in front of them.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. She also signed off on the affidavit that claimed that all Mar-a-Lago classified docs had been returned

(before the search and seizure found so much more)

Trump lawyer told to certify Mar-a-Lago document search she did not conduct


Hugo Lowell in Washington
Mon 10 Oct 2022 14.07 EDT


Donald Trump’s lawyer Christina Bobb was instructed to certify to the justice department that all sensitive government documents stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort subpoenaed by a grand jury had been returned, though she had not herself conducted the search for the records.

The certification of subpoena compliance appears to be at the center of a criminal investigation into obstruction of justice surrounding the former US president after the assurance was proved to be untrue when the FBI’s search of the property turned up more than 100 more documents marked classified.

The saga around the Mar-a-Lago documents has become increasingly fraught in the courts as Trump has repeatedly claimed the FBI search and resultant investigation is politically motivated. Meanwhile, the justice department and Democrats have portrayed the taking of the documents as a potentially serious national security breach.

Bobb signed the certification as the “custodian of records” at the direction of another Trump lawyer, Evan Corcoran, only after adding caveats to make the declaration less ironclad since she had not conducted the search herself, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/10/trump-lawyer-christina-bobb-mar-a-lago-certify-documents