Ex-Trump Lawyer Who Sought to Overturn 2020 Election Hired by RNC as ‘Senior Counsel for Election Integrity’
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The Republican National Committee has hired former OAN reporter Christina Bobb as senior counsel for election integrity. Bobb also served as an attorney for former President Donald Trump, whose daughter-in-law Lara Trump was installed as RNC co-chair last week.
“I’m honored to join the RNC and thrilled the new leadership is focused on election integrity,” Bobb said in a statement. “I look forward to working to secure our elections and restore confidence in the process.”
The move was facilitated by Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita.
Bobb has pushed conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost, though he falsely claims it was rigged against him. Like Trump, Bobb urged former Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the results of the election while acting as the presiding officer over certification in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump and some of his attorneys claimed Pence could send the matter back to the state legislatures, which could choose the winner.
On that day, Bobb tweeted that Pence “can solve this now by sending it back to the [state] legislators.” Pence declined, prompting a riot at the Capitol.
Last year, Bobb said she wanted to see those who allegedly stole the election from Trump put on trial.
She also played a role in Trump’s government documents case. In June 2022, Bobb signed a letter to the Department of Justice stating that to her knowledge there were no government documents at Mar-a-Lago. Two months later, the FBI executed a search warrant at the estate and found a trove of government material. Trump has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents and obstructing their retrieval. He has pleaded not guilt to all counts.
Bobb’s hiring comes amid the total Trumpification of the RNC, which this week terminated more than 60 staffers in what Politico called a “bloodbath.”
Co-chair Lara Trump has said that “every single penny” the RNC spends should go toward reelecting her father-in-law.