Ex-Trump Lawyer Indicted In Arizona For Trying to Overturn 2020 Election Is Now Running the GOP’s ‘Election Integrity’ Unit
Former OAN host turned Trump 2020 election lawyer, Christina Bobb, was indicted in Arizona on Wednesday over her role in trying to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the state with the so-called “fake electors” scheme.
Bobb has been a key figure in Trump-world in recent years. She joined Trump’s legal team after the 2020 election and pushed the roundly debunked claims that the election was stolen, led audits in states like Arizona, and later went on to be a key figure in Trump’s classified documents case – having signed the certified letter claiming no more classified documents were in Trump’s possession, which, of course, precipitated an FBI raid and turned out to be blatantly false.
Last month, a week after Trump managed to install his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair of the Republican National Committee, Bobb was hired by the RNC to lead the party’s “election integrity” unit.
The Guardian detailed what Bobb’s new role is believed to include:
Bobb’s “election integrity” post at the RNC is expected to involve teams of poll workers, poll watchers and other efforts in swing states and she has begun talking with key Maga allies with similar missions. Bobb last month told the far-right reporter Breanna Morello that her top goal is “empowering the grassroots”.
Even before her recent indictment, Bobb’s hiring raised some eyebrows. Charlie Dent, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, blasted the RNC hiring Bobb as a “further indication of how the RNC has not only become an arm of the Trump campaign, but an outlet for the most extreme elements of the election denial movement.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reacted to the news saying, “Putting Christina Bobb in charge of election integrity is like putting Donald Trump in charge of integrity.”
The Arizona indictment charged 17 other individuals alongside Bobb, including former top Trump aides like former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman, and top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn. The indictment also charged the 11 fake electors that Trump and his allies set up to replace the legitimately elected Biden electors on Jan. 6th – had Vice President Mike Pence followed the plan and thrown out the swing states’ electors to be replaced by the fake electors. Trump was not charged in the indictment, but was listed as a co-conspirator.
