New reporting confirms that Trump-linked, far-right organization paid for Mastriano, Kauffman, and Dush’s trip to the sham “audit” in Arizona.
PENNSYLVANIA — After ducking questions for weeks about who paid for their trip to Arizona, new reporting revealed that former Trump administration lawyer and far-right propagandist Christina Bobb paid for Doug Mastriano, Chris Dush, and Rob Kauffman’s “conspiracy theory tourism.” On Friday, The Washington Post reported that Bobb, who is in “semiregular contact with Trump,” used her “Voices and Votes” organization to “fly lawmakers to Arizona from other states Trump lost, so they could consider replicating the audit back home” — including the three Pennsylvania Republicans.
Bobb has played a central role in promoting the Big Lie and peddling absurd — and false — conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. After the November election, Bobb worked with Rudy Giuliani in an attempt to overturn the election, and she has actively fundraised for the sham “audit” in Arizona, one of many shady pro-Trump figures to do so.
“Doug Mastriano, Chris Dush, and Rob Kauffman have spent weeks refusing to answer questions about their Trumpian scavenger hunt in Arizona, and now we know why: they wanted to cover up the fact that trip was paid for by top Trump ally, conspiracy theorist, and far-right cable host Christina Bobb,” said Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesman Brendan Welch. “More lies from Trump, Bobb, and Mastriano won’t change reality — Pennsylvania has already had two audits and they both confirmed that Joe Biden won fair and square. Pennsylvanians deserve leaders who are committed to addressing the challenges facing the Commonwealth, but instead, Republicans like Doug Mastriano would rather spend time 2,000 miles away, consorting with far-right, antidemocratic conspiracy theorists.”
In case you missed it, check out The Washington Post report below:
By Paul Farhi & Elahe Izadi, 06/18/21
One America News correspondent Christina Bobb had some exciting news to share from the scene of the Arizona GOP-led audit of the 2020 presidential vote in Maricopa County: Republican lawmakers from another battleground state had just paid a visit to see if they might replicate it back home.
“If they like what they see, [they’ll] take it back to Pennsylvania,” she told her audience this month from the floor of a massive Phoenix arena where more than 2 million ballots are being removed from boxes and examined by hand.
“I think we can expect to see a lot more key decision-makers coming out to take a look,” she added, hopefully.
Bobb didn’t mention in her report that she had helped raise money to pay for those lawmakers to visit. Nor that she worked with Arizona Republicans last year to find some of the initial, much-disputed evidence they used to justify the audit.
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A 38-year-old lawyer and former Trump administration official who had no background in journalism when she joined One America’s “reporting staff” a year ago, Bobb has since taken on several conflicting roles in the Arizona proceedings.
She’s been a cheerleader for the audit and some of the conspiracy theories that underlie it. “The entire country knows it will unravel the Democrats’ schemes from 2020,” Bobb told viewers of her opinion show on One America in late April, a few days after the audit began. “Joe Biden is not a legitimate president.”
She reportedly is in semiregular contact with Trump, conveying news and encouragement about the operation, which the former president hopes will lead to a reversal of his loss in Arizona and, eventually, the entire electoral college. (Arizona Republicans have insisted the audit is meant to protect future elections; not reverse the last one.)
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She is also one of the audit’s financiers. “If you would like to donate to see this audit completed in its entirety, you can do so at voicesandvotes.org,” Bobb announced at the end of her May segment. She has disclosed elsewhere that she is Voices and Votes’s president and CEO; insists the group is unaffiliated with One America despite the on-air promos; and claims that it has raised at least $150,000 for the audit. Some of the money was used to fly lawmakers to Arizona from other states Trump lost, so they could consider replicating the audit back home.
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