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The chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Ronna Romney McDaniel, says in a new interview that she regrets letting former President Trump's lawyers, namely Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, spread unproven claims about the 2020 election from the organization's headquarters.
Speaking with The New York Times, McDaniel indicated that she thought it had been a mistake to allow Giuliani and Powell to make the claims about election rigging days after the vote at the RNC's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"When I saw some of the things Sidney was saying, without proof, I certainly was concerned it was happening in my building," McDaniel told the newspaper. "There are a whole host of issues we had to deal with - what is the liability of the RNC, if these allegations are made and unfounded?"
During the Nov. 19 press conference at the RNC headquarters, lawyers for the former president including Powell and Giuliani claimed that Democrats had organized around the country to steal hundreds of thousands of votes in key battleground states including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rnc-chairwoman-expresses-regret-over-giuliani-news-conference/ar-BB1dhV4p?li=BBnb7Kz
Well boot their asses out of the party then.
samsingh
(17,600 posts)courage to stand up
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Ok.
still_one
(92,371 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)durablend
(7,464 posts)"I certainly was concerned...."
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)If not, her words mean nothing.
catbyte
(34,428 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Good luck with that.
PufPuf23
(8,813 posts)related to Mitt Romney?
Pompoy
(123 posts)Her father is the older brother of Mitt.
PufPuf23
(8,813 posts)is even more reason why Mitt won't leave the GOP.
He has a more open field than other GOP pols because he is at least sane.
If tRump is convicted and barred from future office, all the better for Romney (and frankly from my perspective the GOP as a whole).
Expect Mitt to be GOP candidate in 2024.
theneworiginal
(302 posts)If I'm him, I'm telling them they have to leave.
I have big props for Mitt showing some real integrity against serious blowback, but he don't give a shit about fundamental Democratic ideals.
Jirel
(2,021 posts)Well believe you when you ACT on it, Ronna.
apnu
(8,758 posts)He fired his team on Saturday because they wouldn't go into Congress and lie that he won the election. They want to argue its not possible to convict the POTUS if he's not POTUS. His new team, on Sunday, is taking the exact same track. How long until he fires them as well?
FSogol
(45,520 posts)Chainfire
(17,611 posts)But it was just too exciting to watch.....
To hell with them all. Insane Christo-Fascists, take your apologies to someone who cares.
mzmolly
(51,003 posts)They regret that their attempted coup didn't pan out.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)crickets
(25,982 posts)Fortunately, my nose blocked most of it. Ow.
chowder66
(9,074 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,436 posts)I mean, she's hardly a profile in courage, but the bar for not being penalized by the insurrectionist/Q caucus right now seems to be supporting their conspiracy theories and not support......um....democracy.
Qutzupalotl
(14,322 posts)and not the damage those lies are doing to the country.
Her silence until now makes her complicit in the insurrection. Fuck her.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Then at the first available opportunity in a forum that approximates the forum the lie was spread in, you disavow the statements and tell the truth. Then you do that three more times at least.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)killer concern.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Well, the answer is that your asinine party needs to fix it ...
Every freaking one of them!
Volaris
(10,274 posts)FROM THE MATRIX:
...'wherein the Anomaly is revealed as both the beginning, AND THE END '
if shes worried about the liability of the RNC, it full well means that the RNC is fucking liable as as all get out, otherwise the statement would be damn sure OTHERWISE, wouldnt it?!
Iggo
(47,564 posts)Fucking liar.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)... crazy while the crazy was near the mic she decided not to.