Up to this point, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel’s efforts to defend the party’s clumsily worded resolution attacking the House Select Committee on January 6 (which was primarily meant to condemn U.S. representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger) have been rather clumsy themselves. But now she’s come up with a relatively clear, if questionable, argument: When the RNC attacked the committee for persecuting “ordinary citizens” pursuing “legitimate political discourse,” it wasn’t referring to the January 6 rioters, but the fake Trump electors, who are now facing congressional subpoenas. Politico explains:
According to RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, the phrase “legitimate political discourse” … was a reference to a set of nonviolent GOP activists with close ties to the national party.
Those activists were relatively small in number compared with the thousands who breached the Capitol: They were dozens of state and local GOP leaders who agreed to serve as electors for Trump and signed false documents claiming the former president had prevailed in at least five states that Joe Biden won. In McDaniel’s telling, those Republican activists were engaging in “legitimate” discourse by signing the false certificates and sending them to Washington, a crucial facet of Trump’s last-ditch plan to subvert the 2020 election.
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