Dean Obeidallah: Arizona’s former attorney general wanted to be Donald Trump’s “superstar.” And that was his downfall.
his misleading claims stating that his investigation had turned up “serious concerns,” adding, “It’s frustrating for all of us, because I think we all know what happened in 2020.” On Bannon’s show, he even falsely claimed that Maricopa County utilized artificial intelligence to verify ballot signatures. In fact, as the Postat the time, “every signature is verified by election staff.” But facts apparently don’t matter when you are trying to suck up to Trump — all that matters is blind loyalty.
However, Brnovich’s soul-selling still wasn’t enough for Trump. The former president ended up endorsing Blake Masters, who had bluntly months before, “I think Trump won in 2020.” Masters — like other Trump-endorsed election deniers in Arizona, such as Kari Lake — won in the August GOP primary. Brnovich finished a distant third.just a week before the 2022 election and slammed the election deniers in Arizona like Lake as “clowns” and “grifters.” He even told host Scott Pelley that the election lies were “horse****. And I’ve been trying to scrape it off my shoes for the last year.
Then Brnovich added something truly revealing: “When you’re an actual prosecutor, when you’re the actual government, there’s a higher obligation.” Brnovich clearly knew better all along. But in the pursuit of Trump’s endorsement, he sacrificed his values and integrity. Thankfully, Brnovich is no longer in office. But in Congress and in states across the country, many equally corrupted Republicans are also using the apparatus of government to undermine the very democracy they have sworn to protect.
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