RNC's 'election integrity' lawyer arraigned, charged with election crimes

[LetMyPeopleVote]

In March, the RNC hired two lawyers to oversee its election-year legal efforts. One was pushed out, and the other was arraigned on election-related charges.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rncs-election-integrity-lawyer-arraigned-charged-election-crimes-rcna153454

The other lawyer the RNC hired in March was Christina Bobb, who was tapped to serve as the party’s senior counsel for election integrity, and who was back in the news Tuesday. My MSNBC colleague Clarissa-Jan Lim reported:

Rudy Giuliani and several other defendants in the Arizona “fake electors” case have been arraigned on charges of conspiracy, fraud and forgery over an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor. ... Others arraigned Tuesday include former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and Christina Bobb.

All of the criminal defendants, including Bobb, pleaded not guilty.

And while time will tell what becomes of the prosecutions, it’s difficult not to marvel at the ongoing set of circumstances. As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked online, “What do you think the news cycle today would be like if the DNC’s head of voter mobilization got arraigned for voter fraud?”......

In case anyone needs a refresher, a recent Washington Post analysis made clear that Bobb’s not just another Republican lawyer.

She has a robust pedigree, at least as far as Trump is concerned. Soon after the 2020 election, she began working with Giuliani and others to elevate baseless or later-debunked claims about the results in various states having been tainted by fraud. She was involved in the “audit” of votes in Arizona, working with Trump campaign official (and Georgia co-defendant) Mike Roman. She wrote a book, published in January 2023, cataloguing familiar (and baseless or debunked) criticisms of the results. It’s all there, from Antrim County to State Farm Arena to True the Vote. (The book’s forward was written by Stephen K. Bannon; Jim Hoft of the conspiracy-promoting site Gateway Pundit wrote a blurb.)

That was just a sampling. Bobb also talked in 2022 about a plot to overturn the 2020 election results and possibly reinstate Trump to the White House. A year later, the lawyer raised the possibility of someone “intentionally” having released Covid as part of a scheme to interfere with Trump’s re-election effort.....

In other words, the lawyer who will help oversee the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” efforts is a “big lie” proponent, an election conspiracy theorist who played a prominent role in a scandal that led to one of Trump’s many felony indictments, and now under indictment in Arizona, where she has been charged with election-related crimes.

[brer cat]

1. Not at all surprising.

[usonian]

2. "Election Integrity" means preventing non-whites from voting and overturning unfavorable results.

PERIOD.

[riversedge]

3. As #trump says--he surrounds himself with the best!! ha ha

[republianmushroom]

4. But by republican ethics and integrity, this is how it elections should be done.

[pippenpippen]

5. I don't feel sorry exactly for all these young women -- her and Hope Hicks and Alina Habba...

Because they wanted to do things for Trump.

I will never understand though how so many people willingly ruin themselves in service to him.