Donald Trump, not Liz Cheney, is, of course, the backward-looking litigator and disinformation disseminator-in-chief. In the last seven weeks alone, Trump has issued more than 20 false statements about the 2020 election. On May 15, Trump claimed that “ballots are missing” in Maricopa County, Ariz., and the “entire Database has been deleted.” Not true. Stephen Richer, the Republican official who leads the county’s election department responded in a tweet that the former president is “unhinged.” Richer said, “We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. They are as falsifiable as 2 + 2 = 5.”
Nor has the Trump-led Republican Party shown any signs of growth in 2021.