Kelli Ward and the AZGOP try to excuse the Trump mob

Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward still doesn’t get it.

Or worse.

She gets it and doesn’t care.

She doesn’t seem to understand that there is no excuse. None. For the mob violence, the domestic terrorism, perpetrated on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., by supporters of Donald Trump.

None.

That’s it.

Period.

End of sentence.

And yet here was Ward on Twitter: You know what could have prevented this? #ElectionIntegrity and full transparent investigations into 2020 fraud. Audits, eyes on paper ballots, full audit of ALL digitally adjudicated and all duplicated ballots, full evaluation of Dominion machines. Remember: Democrats refused.

Again.

No.

What could have prevented the terrorist attack was an understanding and respect for the Constitution. What could have prevented the mob violence was people like Ward not continuing to spread baseless conspiracy theories about an election deemed fair and accurate by elected officials from BOTH parties, and by the courts, to whom Ward and others have appealed again and again and again.

What could have prevented it would have been Trump and his cult followers like Ward being honest.

In addition to Ward the official Twitter account of the Arizona Republican Party also got into the excuse making game.

The party began its six tweet thread: Thousands of Americans took to the streets of Washington, D.C., today to march for integrity, transparency, and accountability in our elections. They believe that their national and state democratic institutions have failed them. They are right.

Again.

No.

Our democratic institutions did not fail Americans. Instead, political cultists have failed our democratic institu

tions, spreading discord and misinformation in service to Dear Leader, who fell short in the election.

By the fifth tweet the AZGOP Twitter master wrote:

Those who incite violence and sow chaos have no home in the Republican Party. These attitudes and actions are antithetical to our Party’s core principles and values, and stand in direct conflict with our nation’s Judeo-Christian beliefs and moral foundation.

That should have been the FIRST thing they said. Not the fifth.

Also, if the first sentence of the tweet were true, if those who incite violence and sow chaos had no home in the Republican Party then Donald Trump would not be a Republican, because there is no one more responsible for inciting the violence and chaos in Washington than him.

Trump welcomed under the Republican Party tent the worst America has to offer, the white nationalists, militiamen, neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, QAnon fanatics and more. And it led to unhinged crowds bursting through barricades, scaling walls, breaking windows and storming the Capitol in MAGA gear under Confederate flags.

Kelli Ward asks, “You know what could have prevented this?”

Yes, we do.

You.

You could have prevented it.

But you did just the opposite. Reach EJ Montini at ed.montini@ arizonarepublic.com