{"id":1030677,"date":"2024-04-11T20:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030677"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:11:41","slug":"lara-trump-again-says-rnc-will-partner-with-election-denying-conspiracy-theorist-scott-presler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/lara-trump-again-says-rnc-will-partner-with-election-denying-conspiracy-theorist-scott-presler\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara Trump AGAIN Says RNC Will Partner With Election-Denying Conspiracy Theorist Scott Presler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump <\/em>saying<\/em><\/a> the RNC will partner with election-denying conspiracy theorist Scott Presler, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScott Presler is not a \u2018grassroots hero\u2019 \u2013 he\u2019s an election-denying, far-right MAGA extremist who has peddled QAnon conspiracy theories, spread lies about the 2020 election, and was at the Capitol on January 6. By announcing plans to partner with Presler, Lara Trump and the RNC are once again putting election denialism front and center of Trump\u2019s MAGA takeover of the party: They\u2019ve made election denial a litmus test for their hires, are spreading baseless lies about the 2020 election, and are partnering with conspiracy theorists and serial liars like Presler. Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are making it clear that democracy is on the line this November, and the American people are going to reject his dangerous MAGA agenda at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Lara Trump said the RNC will partner with election denier and conspiracy theorist Scott Presler.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump<\/a>: \u201cScott Presler is a grassroots hero. \u2026 I said I want Scott on our team. \u2026 We got together and we said, however we can legally partner, we’re going to legally partner, so the RNC and the Trump campaign are gonna be working side by side with Scott Presler and his organization<\/strong> to ensure that we are utilizing all of the power that we have together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lara Trump backtracked after initially announcing plans for the RNC to hire Presler.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cScott Presler, a conservative activist who has spread conspiracy theories, won’t be getting an RNC job\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLara Trump, the RNC’s new co-chair, initially said she wanted to hire Scott Presler for its \u2018legal ballot-harvesting\u2019 division.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presler is a far-right MAGA extremist who has peddled QAnon-fueled conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election, worked for an anti-Muslim hate group, and was literally on Capitol grounds during the January 6 insurrection. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201c[Presler] has a large online following and has helped spread a wide range of conspiracies, including about QAnon, in recent years. Presler was director for a group critical of Islam that organized \u2018March Against Sharia\u2019 protests and helped plan \u2018stop the steal\u2019 rallies ahead of Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WCCO<\/a>: \u201cPresler, a Virginia native, planned several \u2018stop the steal\u2019 rallies in addition to being on the Capitol grounds the day of the insurrection.<\/strong> Presler also described the siege on the Capitol as \u2018the largest civil rights protest in American history.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pennsylvania Capital-Star<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump rally was organized by Scott Presler, formerly a paid organizer for the Virginia Republican Party, and a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. He called for an audit of the election results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAttendees, including Presler, repeated false claims of voter fraud in Michigan, <\/strong>stemming from a typo in results from a small county, according to the New York Times. Presler could not cite any examples of voter fraud in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Be assured, if I have to set up my own independent commission, I will be looking through votes to make sure there is no fraudulent, illegal activity,\u2019 Presler said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Matters<\/a>: \u201cMedia Matters previously documented that Presler promoted QAnon in dozens of instances on his Instagram account.<\/strong> Presler has also worked for the anti-Muslim group Act for America,<\/strong> which, The Associated Press wrote, \u2018is identified by the Anti-Defamation League as the largest anti-Muslim group in America.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Presler backed disgraced Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was accused of sexually assaulting women and minors. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

@ScottPresler<\/a>: \u201cInteresting that these accusations against Roy Moore come out a month before Election Day, just like what happened to President Trump. #RoyMoore\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@ScottPresler<\/a>: \u201cI think Jeff Flake just won the election for Roy Moore. Flake just galvanized every angry Republican to vote. #JeffFlake\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RNC is still pushing baseless lies about the 2020 election, even after Lara Trump claimed MAGA Republicans have moved on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cRNC under Lara Trump spreads \u2018massive fraud\u2019 claims about 2020 election\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters\u2019 phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed \u2018massive fraud\u2019 in the 2020 election. It\u2019s the latest example of how the RNC under the former president\u2019s daughter-in-law is perpetuating lies about the 2020 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven after she was elected co-chair and said claims of a stolen election are \u2018in the past,\u2019 she didn\u2019t repudiate those baseless accusations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Trump\u2019s MAGA rebrand of the RNC, election denialism is a litmus test for getting hired.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThose seeking employment at the Republican National Committee after a Trump-backed purge of the committee this month have been asked in job interviews if they believe the 2020 election was stolen, according to people familiar with the interviews, making the false claim a litmus test of sorts for hiring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe questions about the 2020 election were open-ended, two people familiar with the questioning said. \u2018But if you say the election wasn\u2019t stolen, do you really think you\u2019re going to get hired?\u2019 one former RNC employee asked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cOver the past few weeks, Trump advisers have asked those seeking employment at the RNC about their views of fraud during the 2020 election, with the question serving as an apparent litmus test for hiring, the sources said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new hiring questions come as Trump continues to falsely claim, both publicly and privately, that the 2020 election was rife with fraud, and suggest that President Joe Biden stole the election from him <\/strong>\u2014 a rallying cry that has united many GOP voters around him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the RNC merges with the Trump campaign and continues its extreme MAGA rebrand, the roster of MAGA extremists and conspiracy theorists among its leadership only continues to grow. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cMr. Trump likes Mr. Whatley for one overwhelming reason, according to people who have discussed him with the former president: He is \u2018a stop the steal guy,\u2019<\/strong> as one of the people described him. He endorses Mr. Trump\u2019s false claims about mass voter fraud \u2026 Mr. Whatley has baselessly claimed that election security efforts from Republicans in North Carolina stopped Democrats from cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cLikely frontrunner for RNC chair parroted Trump\u2019s 2020 election lies\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMichael Whatley, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, shared false claims that Republican observers were prevented from accessing polling locations and repeatedly said Democratic cities in swing states were engaged in \u2018massive fraud.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201c<\/strong>She also played a key role in the Trump campaign\u2019s fake electors scheme <\/strong>after he lost the 2020 election, working closely with Trump advisers to organize the plan in seven battleground states. The scheme formed the basis of parts of Smith\u2019s election subversion indictment against the former president, which says Trump and his allies created \u2018fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding\u2019 in Congress on January 6, 2021, and \u2018disenfranchise millions of voters.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBobb was also a correspondent during the 2020 election for the fringe pro-Trump network OAN, where she promoted false claims that the election was rigged. <\/strong>The voting technology company Dominion sued Bobb and OAN for defamation in 2021. Some of her on-air segments were also referenced in a separate defamation case<\/strong> against OAN filed by Smartmatic, another aggrieved voting company. OAN and Bobb have denied wrongdoing in these civil cases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cA self-described conspiracy theorist and election denier,<\/strong> Ms. Bobb will take on a role overseeing Republican election integrity efforts \u2014 after years of aggressively promoting false claims about the 2020 election. Her appointment reflects the ascendant role of election deniers in Republican leadership and in Mr. Trump\u2019s presidential campaign.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump saying the RNC will partner with election-denying conspiracy theorist Scott Presler, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cScott Presler is not a \u2018grassroots hero\u2019 \u2013 he\u2019s an election-denying, far-right MAGA extremist who has peddled QAnon conspiracy theories, spread lies about the 2020 election, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLara Trump AGAIN Says RNC Will Partner With Election-Denying Conspiracy Theorist Scott Presler - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/lara-trump-again-says-rnc-will-partner-with-election-denying-conspiracy-theorist-scott-presler\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-11T20:51:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T16:11:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/lara-trump-again-says-rnc-will-partner-with-election-denying-conspiracy-theorist-scott-presler\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/lara-trump-again-says-rnc-will-partner-with-election-denying-conspiracy-theorist-scott-presler\/\",\"name\":\"Lara Trump AGAIN Says RNC Will Partner With Election-Denying Conspiracy Theorist Scott Presler - 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