The GOP’s Shameful Embrace of Trump’s Fake Election Fraud | RealClearPolitics
President Trump is aware there is no evidence of massive voter fraud resulting from an international conspiracy — hatched not only by Democrats in every swing state but also Republican state officials and Republican judges and the FBI and the DOJ — to steal the November election from him. Republicans in Congress know this too. They know there was no global plot, no widespread fraud, no evidence presented in court and no way Trump won by a lot. Attorney General Bill Barr said this gently on Tuesday, but GOP leaders refuse to do the same — they re down for the con.
Brad Raffensperger, a partisan Republican Trump donor and voter who happens to be the secretary of state in Georgia, has now been dubbed the enemy of the people by the president of the United States for following the law and not cheating on Trump s behalf. His family faces death threats, as do many election officials across the country who are protecting the integrity of their state results in places where Trump is disappointed with the outcome. Raffensperger is asking his fellow Republicans to please have his back and to get a grip on reality. He said he has been asked to break the law, to get to 270, and to help throw the election to Congress. If Republicans don t start condemning this stuff, then I think they re really complicit in it, Raffensperger said. It s time to stand up and be counted. Are you going to stand for righteousness? Are you going to stand for integrity? Or are you going to stand for the wild mob?