Former Michigan GOP executive director says Trump and Republicans should be criminally charged......

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Former Michigan GOP executive director says Trump and Republicans should be criminally charged for election lies


(Detroit Metro Times) Attempts by former President Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 election is likely just the beginning of unprecedented attacks on democracy in Michigan unless the Republicans are held accountable.

That’s according to a national election expert, state lawmaker, and former head of the Michigan GOP.

“When you have a president who seeks to stay in power despite losing an election, that is an attempt to install a dictatorship,” Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, said in at news conference Thursday. “That’s what was happening here, and the threats are ongoing.”

Many of the Republicans running for local, state, and federal elections in Michigan this year continue to peddle conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud. The danger is that Republicans who lose in this year’s elections will falsely claim they were victims of voter fraud, rather than concede, a centuries-long tradition in any democracy.

Jeff Timmer, who served as Michigan Republican Party Executive Director from 2005 to 2009, said he never dreamed that his former colleagues would disregard election results at the risk of undermining democracy. ..............(more)

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/former-michigan-gop-executive-director-spells-out-why-trump-and-republicans-should-be-criminally-charged-for-election-lies-30673798

[MagickMuffin]

1. I guess he isn't alone: former colleagues disregarding election results undermining democracy

The moderates better start coming out of the woodwork to retake their party. However, I'm all in on the destruction of said party but I'd rather have the moderate base than the maga form.

Let the magas form their own party would be my wish!