Top GOP Election Lawyer Says U.S. Needs ‘Cleansing’ | EUROtoday

A high election lawyer for the Republican Party mentioned on a podcast Tuesday that she’s hoping for a “cleansing in our nation” and that “we can clean out the filth.”

“I think there’s a lot of weird, weird things going on behind the scenes that we probably can’t see,” mentioned Christina Bobb, a former right-wing media persona who’s now the Republican National Convention’s senior counsel for “election integrity.”

“I hope they all break the surface so that we just get this cleansing in our nation and we can clean out the filth.”

The feedback on the “Steak for Breakfast” podcast, which had been first flagged by liberal watchdog group Media Mattershad been in keeping with an more and more fascistic tone from the Trump marketing campaign and Republican Party usually. Former president and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, for instance, has mentioned immigrants are bringing “bad genes” into the United States and “poisoning the blood” of the nation — echoing Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric — and has referred to as for the mass deportation of thousands and thousands of individuals. Trump additionally just lately mentioned he expects a “problem” on Election Day from the “enemy from within.”

Bobb’s remarks got here throughout an extended remark through which she mentioned the left was “evil” and “demonic”, and accused liberals of desirous to “normalize pedophilia” and shield “pedophile rights” due to “all of the weird transgender stuff.”

She started speaking about Sean “Diddy” Combs — who final month was indicted on intercourse trafficking and different costs — and Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail after being charged with intercourse trafficking and different costs himself. Bobb accused Democrats of “protecting” paperwork associated to Combs and Epstein, and mentioned celebrities who needed to point out they weren’t pedophiles might show that by calling themselves conservatives. (Alex Acosta, the federal prosecutor who gave Epstein an immunity deal in 2007, defending him from federal prosecution, later grew to become Trump’s labor secretary.)

At that time, Bobb made her remark about “cleansing” the nation.

Earlier through the present, she additionally mentioned she believed Trump would win the election, and that Democrats would attempt to create “turmoil and chaos” after his victory.

“Americans really need to be prepared to stand their ground and not give up any ground to the fact that no, we just won this election outright. Just because you couldn’t get enough people to cheat on your behalf, you can’t steal our victory,” Bobb mentioned.

Bobb has a protracted historical past within the MAGA motion. She was a key participant within the 2020 try and overturn President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and through the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, she pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence handy the election outcomes “back to the legislators.” As Trump’s private lawyer, she signed a doc claiming that every one categorized materials at Mar-a-Lago had been returned to the federal government — which was unfaithful.

She additionally appeared on the white nationalist Stew Peters’ present final 12 months. At one level, Peters mentioned to her, “You’re a lawyer. You know that for treason, one of the, you know, potential punishments for that is death. Are we ever going to see any trials for these people that, you know, these traitors that have stolen our country?”

“I certainly hope we do,” Bobb replied.

After she was named the RNC “election integrity” counsel, Bobb was criminally charged in Arizona in relation to the Trump marketing campaign’s 2020 efforts to overturn the election outcomes there. Separately, she’s a defendant in a defamation swimsuit from Dominion, the voting machine producer.