The most jarring thing about Paul Gosar backing Trump's Constitution rant wasn't the endorsement itself — it was the GOP party's response. (via MaddowBlog)
that he didn’t actually write what he’d obviously written. The hapless effort was emblematic of the fact that he’d pushed a line that no one was prepared to endorse.Rep. Paul Gosar on Wednesday endorsed former President Donald Trump’s call to terminate the Constitution over false claims the 2020 election was fraudulent in a tweet that he later deleted.
NBC News reached out to the Republican’s office to ask why the tweet was deleted and if Gosar stood by his original statement. A spokesperson for the lawmaker responded: “No one in Congress has fought for constitutional values more than Congressman Gosar. He is known as a strict constitutionalist for good reason. He has a decade of votes proving that. President Trump has reissued his statement to clarify what he meant.
I’m not altogether sure what this meant or how it helped. The former president published a statement calling for a suspension of constitutional law. Many Republicans rejected the argument. Gosar, in contrast,the statement, adding provocative phrasing about “unprecedented fraud” — which did not actually occur in reality — requiring an “unprecedented cure.”None of these developments is especially surprising.
It was about a year ago when House Democrats stripped Gosar of his committee assignments for releasing an animated video that
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