United States: the Republican Party subjected to the regime of Trumpism
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Right, Liz Cheney, May 12, 2021, after being sacked from her number three position in the leadership of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
Left, former Republican President Donald Trump, on May 5, 2021, at the Conservative political action conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida.
© AP-Manuel Balce Ceneta / REUTERS-Joe Skipper / Editing RFI
By: Sophie Malibeaux
7 mins
The Republican Party seems to be permanently affected by the disinformation campaign launched ahead of the 2020 US presidential election. This is what just cost Liz Cheney, one of the few parliamentarians among the conservatives to defend the legitimacy of the process, his post. election that brought Joe Biden to the presidency of the United States.
Although banned on Twitter and Facebook, former President Donald Trump continues to pull the strings behind the scenes.
Publicity
The theory of the "
big lie
", "
the big lie
", it is the infox which allowed the mobilization of the supporters of Donald Trump to the assault of the Capitol on January 6, and it is for having denounced it that Republican Liz Cheney has just been sacked from her number three position in the Republican Party leadership in the House of Representatives.
According to Donald Trump, the very election of Joe Biden remains a "
big lie
".
The former president has never accepted his defeat, and continues to speak of "
massive fraud
" in defiance of the facts, and despite the failure of all attempts to challenge the results in American courts.
The fallacious Michigan fraud argument
From a factual point of view, this argument of "
the election stolen by the democrats
", is based on nothing. However, Donald Trump, who now expresses himself on a blog, continues to present himself as a victim of the “
big lie
”. Earlier this week, on his blog “
Live from Donald Trump's office
”, he spoke about the recount of the votes in a district of the state of Michigan. He evokes a procedure supposed to have "
the effect of a bomb
". Because there was indeed in this district of Antrim a manual recount of 15,000 votes, proving an error of 11 ballots wrongly granted to Joe Biden.
However, the audit took place five months ago already, and it was known as early as December that Trump had won this district, which did not prevent his statewide defeat of Michigan altogether. whole, as reported by many American newspapers, like the Business Insider.
For Donald Trump to bring up explosive information today is a deception.
That he needs to exhume this affair to support the thesis of a “
MASSIVE fraud
” - in capitals - as he writes on his blog, shows the factual poverty of his argument.
Twitter censorship bypassed
In fact, if Trump-father is deprived of access to major platforms, his son Donald Trump Junior echoes his father on Twitter and other networks like Rumble. Donald Trump Junior has 6.8 million followers on Twitter. This Thursday, he welcomed the dismissal of Liz Cheney by repeating the words of his father and explaining that "
Trumpism
" would continue to dictate the agenda of the Republican Party.
“
It's very simple
, explains son Trump,
when the press pays attention to a Republican
- in this case Liz Cheney -
it is because that person is not good for real Republicans.
"On social networks, the Trump father and son hammer home their reality, built on"
alternative facts
", an expression used by Kellyanne Conway, spokesperson for President Trump at the start of his mandate.
It is a strategy put in place in 2016 and relentlessly defended by Trump's supporters, far from letting go.
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