Trump Campaign, RNC Respond to DNC Lawsuit: ‘Desperate’

The Trump campaign has responded to the lawsuit filed by the DNC against the Trump campaign, Wikileaks, and Russia.

The lawsuit––which CNN’s Gloria Borger said today was clearly a fundraising stunt––is alleging a conspiracy to sway the 2016 election.

Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale responded in a tweet:

How would you describe the DNC and their last-ditch effort to revive the witch hunt with a lawsuit?
Sham, bogus, corrupt, desperate, frivolous…

— Brad Parscale (@parscale) April 20, 2018

In a Trump campaign press release, Parscale elaborated, “This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party. With the Democrats’ conspiracy theories against the President’s campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC’s fundraising, they’ve sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.”

And the head of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, has also responded:

The DNC’s move is nothing more than a desperate fundraising stunt from a party unable to acknowledge they lost the election. 1/2

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) April 20, 2018

This kind of garbage only serves to promote disproven conspiracy theories and fuels exactly what the Russians want – people to question the legitimacy of the most powerful democracy in the world. 2/2

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) April 20, 2018

[photo via Chris Kleponis / Getty Images]

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