February 14, 2022: Former RNC Chair Calls Trump Claims "Piffle."

2/14/22: The word for the day is “piffle.” As in, the former two-term Republican governor of Montana, and the former chair of the Republican National Committee, Marc Racicot, calling the Orange God’s claims of a stolen election a bunch of piffle. 

That is: “nonsense.” 

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“The former president didn’t experience defeat in 2020

because of fraud.” 

Former Governor Marc Racicot

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This is actually nicer than calling Trump an ill-informed lout, a colossal liar, or a narcissist incapable of facing the truth – that he got beat by Joe Biden, a man he called  the “worst candidate in the history of Presidential politics.” 

In fact, Gov. Racicot took a shot at the RNC, for its claims that the rioters on Jan. 6 were involved in anything but a violent attack on American democracy. 

As he wrote in an op-ed today,

 

Although it is ever so neat and tidy to blame the defeat of the former president on the existence of decisive and widespread fraud, there is not even a scintilla of evidence, anywhere, to support such piffle. The former president didn’t experience defeat in 2020 because of fraud. The truth is quite the opposite. The defeat of the former president is explained by the fact that legions of responsible citizens, part of that Great Middle of America, voted the way they did because they embraced the very fidelity to their country and its Constitution that the RNC claims to embrace in its Party Platform.

Lined up to vote.

In fact, he adds,

 

Many intensely loyal Republicans, more polite and less dangerous than those who breached the Capitol, are, in larger and larger numbers, quietly but persistently looking for alternatives in the form of political movements and candidates of conscience, character, conviction and courage. 

 

He further states:

 

In the Republican National Committee’s search for power for its own sake and its obsession with winning at any cost, you have sacrificed, by your proclamation and its revelation of the presently existing soul of the party, the allegiance of a great many, and a growing number, of your most ardent and long-time supporters. Regrettably, it appears, “you have hitched your wagon to the wrong star.”

Gov. Racicot faults the current GOP leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives for refusing to support the investigation, insisting it has many Republican lawmakers with only one option, “to close their eyes to the truth and curse the darkness.” (See also: 2/6/22.)

 

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IN A SIMILAR VEIN, former Judge J. Michael Luttig, appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by President George H. W. Bush, has been advising a number of senior Republican senators. At issue: making changes to the Electoral Count Act of 1887.

 

That act, according to the Orange God, would have given Vice President Pence the power to count only the electoral votes of states which would have given his boss, the deranged OG, a second, undeserved term in office – and four more years to turn the country into a autocracy.

 

As Judge Luttig writes,

 

Mr. Trump and his allies insist that the 2020 election was “stolen,” a product of fraudulent voting and certifications of electors who were not properly selected. Over a year after the election, they continue to cling to these disproved allegations, claiming that these “irregularities” were all the evidence Mr. Pence needed to overturn the results, and demanding that the rest of the G.O.P. embrace their lies. The balance of the Republican Party, mystifyingly stymied by Mr. Trump, rejects these lies, but, as if they have fallen through the rabbit hole into Alice’s Wonderland, they are confused as to exactly how to move on from the 2020 election when their putative leader remains bewilderingly intent on driving the wedge between the believers in his lies and the disbelievers.

 

After explaining all the reasons why members of Congress, on a bipartisan basis should reform the Act, Judge Luttig sums up those who would oppose changes this way. “Come to think of it,” he writes, “the only members in Congress who might not want to reform this menacing law are those planning its imminent exploitation to overturn the next presidential election.”

 

As, for example, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of the leading suck-ups to the Orange God of Mar-a-Lago.

 

 

FUN FACT: If you weren’t paying attention, you missed the story of Mazars, the OG’s longtime accounting firm, cutting ties with the Trump Organization. Mazars warned the former president’s company that his financial statements from 2011 to 2020 “should no longer be relied upon and you should inform any recipients thereof who are currently relying upon one or more of those documents that those documents should not be relied upon.”

 

That is, they may be fraudulent.

 

Mazars also announced that it would no longer be doing business with the Trump Organization.

 

Because: the documents may be fraudulent.