Columnist warns of true meaning behind favorite GOP soundbite
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Columnist warns of true meaning behind favorite GOP soundbite

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results are the focus of two of the four criminal indictments he is facing — one being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice and the other by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for the State of Georgia. But despite all those criminal indictments, many MAGA Republicans are declaring their commitment to "election integrity" — a GOP talking point that journalist Kirk Swearingen urges fellow reporters to avoid in a biting article published by Salon on May 20. "If the idea that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election — which he won by more than 7 million votes, with a 306-232 electoral vote victory — is Trump's Big Lie, then Republican efforts to ensure 'election integrity' around the country are lies metastasizing from the malignant tumor Trump introduced into our democracy," Swearingen explains. "Media outlets must strive not to repeat any Republican permutation of 'election integrity' and must patiently spell out the truth again and again — and then again, as tiresome as that may be," Swearingen writes.

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