Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R) insists that “it was not a mistake” for state GOP senators to hire Cyber Ninjas, whose CEO Doug Logan had regurgitated the “Big Lie” that voter fraud engineered ex-President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, to lead a supposedly independent audit of the election results in a county where Joe Biden beat Trump.
“Just because somebody found some tweet that’s within some archive program that none of us ever would have done it (the search) doesn’t mean anything,'” Fann told Capitol Media Services on Friday in an interview published Sunday. “Is no one allowed to say anything?'”
The GOP leader claimed that the audit in Maricopa County “is being done in the utmost transparency with the most qualified people, with checks, double checks and triple checks to make sure all this is done correctly.'”
Last week, reporters unearthed archived versions of Logan’s deleted Twitter account showing that he had peddled false conspiracy theories claiming that voter fraud had rigged the election against Trump, whom Logan declared he “wholeheartedly” supported in one of the tweets.
Arizona Senate Republicans’ hiring of Logan despite the fact that two audits of Maricopa County’s election results already failed to find evidence of voter fraud marks the state GOP committee’s ongoing effort to boost Trump’s attacks on the election after he lost decisively to Biden.
A good lawyer would tell her that she has the right to remain silent.
But, of course. A lie is only as good as the number of feckless individuals willing to repeat it, over and over and over again.**
How very Nazi of them.
“Some archive program”? It happened within the last five months, traitor.
Precisely. She might as well have said “it was a lie, and I wish I could spin it as something other than a lie. But there are lies, and then there are lies, and heck - everyone lies and sometimes lies are good lies. So if we are going to go after every lying liar who lies, where will it end? Then all we will have is Democrats, and who wants that? Can’t we all just lie a little, I mean, can’t we all just overlook this lie and all get along? Just because this is all about utter veracity, does lying really disqualify someone? It’s kind just like some big fake news.”
"Is no one allowed to say anything?’”
Um, you can say all the goofy shit you like but what makes you think that means you get to duck all the consequences of saying goofy shit?