Former GOP Representative Liz Cheney warned on Thursday that the recent indictment of the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC's) election integrity unit "tells you all you need to know" about the GOP's governing body.
Cheney's message posted on X (formerly Twitter) was seemingly referring to former Trump lawyer Christina Bobb. On Wednesday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced that 18 people, including Bobb, had been charged with felony offenses, including fraud, forgery and conspiracy, in connection with a scheme to falsely declare that Trump had beaten Joe Biden in the state in 2020.
Bobb, who has publicly disputed the results of the 2020 presidential election, was appointed as the RNC's senior counsel for election integrity in March.
"This tells you all you need to know about today's Republican National Committee: The person in charge of election integrity for the @GOP was just indicted in Arizona for lack of election integrity," Cheney wrote on X.
Newsweek reached out to the RNC via email on Thursday for comment.
Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who lost her bid for reelection in 2022, is a prominent critic of Trump and became increasingly vocal in her opposition to the former president during her final months in Congress. She was one of the 10 GOP House members to vote in favor of Trump's second impeachment in 2021 and one of two Republicans to serve on the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
During the 2022 midterms, Trump endorsed Cheney's GOP primary challenger, Harriet Hageman, who went on to defeat Cheney by a landslide in the primaries before winning her race in Wyoming's at-large congressional district.
Along with being a former lawyer for Trump, Bobb has worked as a reporter for the One America News Network. She also wrote a book about the last presidential election, Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024.
Other Trump allies indicated by the Arizona grand jury are former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, who was once mayor of New York City before serving as an attorney for Trump.
Responding to a comment request from Newsweek for a previous story, Trump campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said Bobb's indictment is "another example of Democrats' weaponization of the legal system."
"Christina Bobb is a former Marine Corps officer who served our nation and the president with distinction," Cheung continued. "The Democrat platform for 2024: If you can't beat them, try to throw them in jail."
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