Cheeto's bad week gets worse: judge orders him to testify...under oath

First, his accounting firm fired him.

From CNN -

Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable

Former President Donald Trump's long-time accounting firm informed the Trump Organization last week that it should no longer rely on nearly 10 years' worth of financial statements and that they would no longer be their accountants, citing a conflict of interest.

"We have come to this conclusion based, in part, upon the filings made by the New York Attorney General on January 18, 2022, our own investigation, and information received from internal and external sources," Mazars wrote in a letter to the Trump Organization chief legal officer, advising them to no longer rely on financial statements ending June 2011 through June 2020.

Then, a judge in NY ordered him, Junior, and Vanky to comply with a subpoena (Fredo is probably torn about not being included).

From AP via Yahoo! News -

Trump must testify in New York investigation, judge rules

Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices, a judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., to comply with subpoenas issued in December by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Cheeto responded as Cheeto does to anything he doesn't like.  With bile and anger.  And finger-pointing and all CAPS.

From the same piece -

In a statement, Trump said, “THERE IS NO CASE!” and accused James’ office of “doing everything within their corrupt discretion to interfere with my business relationships, and with the political process.”

Trump called the ruling “a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in history — and remember, I can’t get a fair hearing in New York because of the hatred of me by Judges and the judiciary. It is not possible.”

Apparently, in today's GQP, being prone to violence and betraying the public trust means one is qualified for higher office

First, the "higher office" part.

From Colorado Public Radio -

Mesa Clerk Tina Peters says she’s running for Secretary of State

Mesa County’s embattled Republican Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is entering the race for Colorado Secretary of State. 

Peters made the announcement on Steve Bannon’s War Room, a podcast hosted by the rightwing political strategist. 

Then the "violence" part.

From The Daily Beast -

‘Don’t Kick!’: Video Shows MAGA Election Clerk Freaking Out During Arrest

The notorious pro-Trump Mesa County elections clerk Tina Peters was detained at a bagel shop on Tuesday—and a video of the incident shows her resisting arrest and apparently attempting to kick a cop. Peters became one of Colorado’s most renowned elections officials last year after she was accused of aiding a QAnon-linked leak of voting-machine logins. The Denver Post reported that Tuesday’s arrest wasn’t linked to investigations of that possible election-security breach, but was related to Peters allegedly filming court proceedings on her iPad. Investigators were reportedly looking for that iPad when they detained Peters. In a video shared by 9News, Peters can be seen jostling with a cop and yelling “Let go of me!” She appears to attempt to kick an officer, who shouts: “Don’t kick!” Peters’ legal defense fund said she complied by handing over the iPad, but resisted when officers started trying to seize other items.

Lastly, the "betraying the public trust" part.

From CNN -

Colorado secretary of state accuses county clerk's office of assisting QAnon-affiliated leak of voting machine logins

In announcing the revoking of some Mesa County voting machines -- their logins appeared in a video by an individual affiliated with QAnon -- Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday also accused the county's clerk, Tina Peters, of assisting in the election system security breach.

During a news conference detailing her order, Griswold said her staff had inspected the county's voting machines and video surveillance system on Tuesday, but could not "establish a verifiable chain of custody for any of the voting systems components in Mesa County and cannot establish confidence in the integrity or security of those components."

Griswold went further and accused Peters of having a hand in facilitating the leak.

With those as qualifications, how long before Paul Gosar and/or Andy Biggs seek higher office?

Cheeto update: even his accountants are jumping ship at this point

From CNN -

Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable

Former President Donald Trump's long-time accounting firm informed the Trump Organization last week that it should no longer rely on nearly 10 years' worth of financial statements and that they would no longer be their accountants, citing a conflict of interest.

"We have come to this conclusion based, in part, upon the filings made by the New York Attorney General on January 18, 2022, our own investigation, and information received from internal and external sources," Mazars wrote in a letter to the Trump Organization chief legal officer, advising them to no longer rely on financial statements ending June 2011 through June 2020.

Paul Gosar does AZ proud. Again.

The folks who witnessed, dealt with, or are investigating the January 6th insurrection may have a different opinion.

Catherine Miranda is back. Sort of.

I went to E-Qual to see if there were any new candidate petitions for me to sign, and, lo and behold, there were some new ones, and one of those has a familiar name.

I didn't actually sign any of them - it may have shown up on my list. but while I haven't moved, since redistricting, I no longer live in LD27.

Having said that, Miranda is an infamous name in AZ Democratic politics.

She endorses Republicans.

She's anti-choice.

When she has run for office, it seemed like most of her money came from PACs, lobbyists, CEO/executive types, and lawyers.

{edit on 2/14 to add (I'm not sure what happened here, but I DID type/upload this stuff originally)] -

I couldn't find an open committee for her, but she tends to file her reports late anyway:

[/end edit]

There WAS a pattern to the lateness - the reports that filed on time tended to have few, if any, individual contributions.

Of course, she hasn't been completely out of politics since 2017 - she was thoroughly trounced in the 2018 Congressional primary by Ruben Gallego.

More on her from Planned Parenthood AZ here.

In case you missed it: AZ GOPer fined $125,000 for misusing campaign funds

From The Daily Beast -

GOP Congressman Fined $125,000 For Financial Violations

The other shoe has dropped for Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ).

His campaign committee has agreed to pay a $125,000 federal fine for misusing donor money and associated reporting violations, according to new Federal Election Commission disclosures.

The investigation, which found “reason to believe” that the violations were “knowing and willful,” was the FEC twin of a separate congressional ethics probe that fined the Arizona Republican $50,000 in 2020 for nearly a dozen violations. The inquiries centered around Schweikert’s dealings with his former chief of staff, political consultant Oliver Schwab, specifically payments to Schwab’s personal credit card and firm.

The agreement was signed on Jan. 12, and the FEC released the documents almost a month later on Friday. As part of the agreement, the Schweikert campaign admitted to breaking three federal laws—all related to expenses.

Sounds like a Friday newsdump to me.

Schwab, mentioned in the third paragraph, has a long history of ethical issues.  He also has a history of supporting some R extremists in their primaries -

I have little doubt that Schweikert will face a primary challenge from the right.

So far as I can see from the allegations against him and this fine, he's only conventionally corrupt and not treasonous enough for today's GQP.

Of course, the result of the R primary in his district will be irrelevant; in the general election, support Jevin Hodge for Congress.

Legislative schedule - week starting 2/13/2022

Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.

Note2: Generally, I'll only specify bills that look to propagate propaganda.  Other bills may be more conventionally bad (think: corrupt or other misuses of public monies and/or authority.  My recommendation is that if an agenda covers an area of interest to you, read the entire agenda.

Note3: Each chamber's respective Rules Committee meets on Monday, the House's in HHR4 at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, also at 1 p.m.  Both committees serve as rubber stamps for bills leadership wants to be advanced and gatekeepers for measures that leadership wants stopped.

Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible.  Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.

Note5: Watch for strikers, or strike everything amendments.  Those involve inserting language into the entirety of a bill.  Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one.

This should be the last week for bills to be heard in committee in their originating chamber.  Next week should be quieter, but activity will pick up next month.

From the legislative timeline -

From the website of the Arizona Legislature:

On Monday, 2/14 -

House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  12 bills on the agenda.

House Land, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  7 bills on the agenda, including a striker for HB2181.

House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 16 bills on that agenda.  It meets again afterward, with 5 more bills on that agenda.   The first agenda includes a striker for HB2624, which is tied to HCR2028, both of which pertain to requiring municipalities and counties to spend a certain amount of money on law enforcement.  I wonder if the legislature will ignore this requirement as blithely as they ignore the state constitution when it comes to funding schools.

From Article 11, Section 6 of the state's constitution -

Nah, they won't ignore funding for law enforcement, and for two reasons - 1. it wouldn't apply to education, which they hate; and 2. it would apply to others.

There are other bad bills on the agendas (mostly the first one), but these are the most hypocritical.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  32 bills on a long and ugly agenda.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  9 bills on the agenda, including strikers for SB1134 and SB1596.  The striker for SB1134 is about mostly banning the use of photo radar.

On Tuesday, 2/15 -

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  30 bills on the agenda, including strikers for HB2203 and HB2391.  Many bad, and "sneaky bad", bills on this agenda.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  13 bills on the agenda, including HB2086, barring schools from requiring immunizations against HPV and Covid-19; HB2314, an anti-LGBTQ+ bill masquerading as a bathroom accommodations bill; this one really looks like Cathi Herrod crooked her little finger; and HB2739, imposing AZ government open meeting requirements on a private organization.  There are other bad bills on this agenda.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  13 bills on the agenda, including HB2128, putting limits on the Arizona Corporation Commission, and HB2410, making a multitude of changes to environmental laws.

Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  13 bills on the agenda, including 2 that would appropriate a LOT of public money for anti-immigrant efforts, and a couple of anti-democracy bills.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  13 bills on the agenda.

On Wednesday, 2/16 -

House Government & Elections meets at 8 a.m. in HHR1.  29 bills on a VERY ugly agenda, including HB2787, a scheme to divide Maricopa County into 4 distinct counties.

House Judiciary meets at 8 a.m. in HHR4.  31 bills on the agenda, including some bad ones.  It probably isn't a coincidence that this meeting is at the same time as House Government & Elections - members of the public can't be in two places at once.

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3.  5 bills on the agenda, in HB2166, making guns and "firearms safety equipment" exempt from sale taxes and HB2803, a massive expansion of school vouchers.

Senate Finance meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109.  12 bills on the agenda.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 8:30 a.m. in SHR1.  30 bills on the agenda, including strikers for 6 of them where the language of the proposed amendment isn't yet available.  A couple of bad bills here, and a few of the strikers look bad, plus one that looks "sneaky bad".

House Appropriations meets at 1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session in HHR1.  9 bills on the agenda.

House Transportation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3 (the website lists the time as "1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session" but the published agenda says "2 p.m."  I'll go with the published agenda here, but pay attention to this one and call ahead if this is an area of interest).  8 bills on the agenda.

Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  7 bills on the agenda, including strikers for 2 of them.  SB1053 makes it a class 2 misdemeanor for an employer who doesn't accommodate an employee's claim of requiring a religious exemption for a Covid vaccination; SB1241, reducing the time limit for bringing actions for violations of the state constitution's gift clause; SB1342, barring the Chinese Communist Party from owning any real property in AZ (yes, this one in a Wendy Rogers' special)

Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  8 bills on the agenda.

On Thursday, 2/17 -

Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  18 bills on a bad agenda, at least 2 of which will see strikers offered.  And at least 1 of those will be bad.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  32 bills on a very bad agenda,  at least 2 of which will see strikers offered.  Same agenda as on Monday.

State Committee update

From the website of the Arizona Secretary of State -

I couldn't find out much about Ectman in a quick search.  He appears to be head of an NGO.

Rep. Mark Finchem may tell and believe "The Big Lie" but have no doubt - most of all, he wants to win the R primary that he's part of.

Yes, he was part of the January 6th insurrection, and yes, he thoroughly hates (see the proposals he has sponsored and cosponsored) citizens, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, Covid mitigation measures and, of course, voters (which is interesting, because the office that he's running for, Arizona Secretary of State, oversees the state's elections.  So I guess that means he only hates voters who don't agree with him.)

He's running in the R primary for AZSOS against "Beau" Lane and fellow legislators Shawna Bolick and Michelle Ugenti-Rita.  The winner of the D primary, Adrian Fontes or Reginald Bolding, waits in the general.

The culmination of his hate is his sponsorship of HCR2033, wherein he seeks to overturns the 2020 presidential election, but only in Maricopa, Pima, and Yuma counties.  Biden won Maricopa and Pima, and Trump barely won Yuma, and, if they're overturned, combined, the margins in those places would be more than the margin of Biden's victory in AZ.

Finchem is doing his level best to help...Democrats win in 2022, even though they are widely expected to lose control of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections.

From Politico's Playbook on 2/7 -

[snip]

DOUG SOSNIK of Brunswick Group argues that “there would need to be a series of developments in order for the Democrats to defy history”:

1. The virus needs to be contained with the country returning to a new normal.
2. Inflation needs to start going down by summer.
3. The economy and the stock market need to maintain steady growth, particularly as interest rates begin to rise.
4. The supply chain needs to return to normal.
5. There is not a global crisis.
6. Biden’s job approval rating needs to be in the high 40s by summer.
7. Republicans need to nominate unelectable general-election candidates and run lousy campaigns. They are capable of this and have done this in recent past cycles, choosing far-right candidates such as TODD AKIN or CHRISTINE O’DONNELL who ended up losing in the general election.
8. Trump and Republicans need to keep talking about the 2020 election.

1 seems to be happening already; 2 will happen (I hope); 3 and 4 are already happening and, I expect, will mirror 1; 5 could be a problem, especially if Putin invades Ukraine; 6 will follow 1, 2, 3, and 4; and 7 and 8 are where Finchem comes in.

I don't know if he's "unelectable" in the general, but, while whining about the election in 2020 and treason may show well in an R primary, it doesn't look good in a general election.

In and of itself, the events of January 6th, and Finchem's part in both it and continuing the "Big Lie" don't make him eligible for the coveted Legislative Loon Award..

Nope, like the Darwin Awards, there are rules for the Legislative Loon Award, and the events of that day caused the deaths of others during and after the events.

It's nice to see that AZ isn't the only place with idiots in elected office...

...though we do seem to have a LOT of them here.

From WOIO (Cleveland) -

Hudson mayor suggests that ice fishing could lead to prostitution

The mayor of Hudson suggested during a city council discussion on ice fishing safety that the winter activity could lead to prostitution.

Hudson Mayor Craig Shubert made the remarks during a Tuesday evening city council meeting.

Council members were discussing whether ice fishing should be allowed at Hudson Springs Parks due to liability purposes.

Mayor Shubert said:

“If you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens

 

next year? Does somebody come back and say,

 

‘I want an ice shanty in Hudson Springs Park for ‘X’ amount of time?’

 

And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem.

 

Prostitution.”

Well, it shouldn't be an issue here - 

In central and southern Arizona, we don't have much ice fishing.  And that's as far as I'm going with this. :)

Democracy isn't easy; People have to pay attention and put in some work, otherwise bad things happen

 A few months ago, I wrote about how school board races have become the focus for trumpkins and other folks who believe that ideology matters more than facts.

This week, a story broke about the effects of normal people ignoring the world around them and letting trumpkins be in charge of things.

From KMGH (CO) -

Douglas County school board fires superintendent in 4-3 vote

In a 4-3 vote, the Douglas County School District Board of Education voted to fire superintendent Corey Wise during a meeting Friday evening.

The meeting comes after the head of the Douglas County School District was allegedly asked to resign by school board president Mike Peterson and vice president Christy Williams.

Yes, elections have consequences. 

So do petty decisions rooted in ideology.

Also from KMGH -

Douglas County teachers' union warns 'high percentage' may leave after Wise's firing

The president of Douglas County Federation, the union representing some teachers and staff in the Douglas County School District, warned Saturday a "high percentage of staff" may leave following superintendent Corey Wise's firing.

Wise's 26-year career with the district came to an end Friday night after all four newly-elected Board of Education members voted to terminate his contract, effective immediately.

It's not just school boards.

From The Guardian (UK) -

California county recalls top official, giving militia-aligned group a path to government

Voters in far northern California have solidified the ouster of a Republican county official, giving control of the Shasta county board of supervisors to a group supported by local militia members.

Leonard Moty, a retired police chief and Republican with decades of public service, lost his seat in a recall election in one of California’s most conservative counties. The Tuesday recall came as tensions reached a high in the county after two years of threats and increasing hostility toward moderate Republican officials over pandemic health restrictions.

The lesson here is a clear one -

PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE!

Democracy is *not* a "fire it up and forget it" kind of operation.

Since its inception, Arizona was known for the 5 "C"s; it's time to update them

Originally, the 5 Cs were copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate.

I humbly offer a few words for an updated version of the 5 Cs.

Mine are

Corruption

Craziness

Coup-koo

Cabbageheads

Cancelers

Looking at this list (which could have been far longer), it appears to be about the majority of members of the Arizona Legislature, not Arizonans.

Legislative schedule - week starting 2/6/2022

Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.

Note2: Generally, I'll only specify bills that look to propagate propaganda.  Other bills may be more conventionally bad (think: corrupt or other misuses of public monies and/or authority.  My recommendation is that if an agenda covers an area of interest to you, read the entire agenda.

Note3: Each chamber's respective Rules Committee meets on Monday, the House's in HHR4 at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, also at 1 p.m.  Both committees serve as rubber stamps for bills leadership wants to be advanced and gatekeepers for measures that leadership wants stopped.

Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible.  Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.

Note5: Watch for strikers, or strike everything amendments.  Those involve inserting language into the entirety of a bill.  Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one.

From the website of the Arizona Legislature:

On Monday. 2/7 -

House Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  9 bills on the agenda, HB 2086, barring DHS requirements for school vaccinations against Covid or human papillomavirus.

House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 2 bills on the agenda.

House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  12 bills on the agenda

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  19 bills on the agenda.  The vast majority of the proposals are anti-democracy/voters/elections.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  3 bills on the agenda.

On Tuesday, 2/8 -

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  7 bills on the agenda, including HB 2674, a proposal to override municipal building codes pertaining to energy conservation for one- or two-family residential structures.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  14 bills on the agenda.

House Natural Resource, Energy, & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  1 bill on the agenda.

 

Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  15 bills on the agenda.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  7 bills on the agenda, including SB 1657 and SB 1707, expanding school vouchers.

On Wednesday, 2/9 -

House Judiciary meets at 8 a.m. in HHR4.  23 bills on the agenda, including HB 2115, requiring certain internet accessible devices to have filters that can block minors from viewing "harmful" material; HB 2253, increasing the hoops that a victim of asbestos exposure has to jump through to file a claim; HB 2447, a "guns in universities and community colleges" bill; HB 2621, forbidding the entering into of consent decrees when a provision of ARS title 16 is challenged.  That section applies to election law;  A "sneaky bad" proposal; and HB 2662, implementing a series of prohibitions related to "digital application platforms."

House Government & Elections meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1.  20 bills on the agenda, many bad ones.

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3.  6 bills on the agenda, including HB 2375, requiring municipalities to use revenue sharing monies only for public safety services; and HCR 2017, which looks like a sneaky bad expansion of exemption to property taxes.  Not sure of how this one works, but with a rogue's gallery of sponsors and co-sponsors like Representatives Carter, Biasiucci, Blackman, Fillmore, Finchem, Kaiser, Kavanagh, Martinez, and Wilmeth, it probably doesn't benefit Arizonans or the budgets of the state's counties, municipalities, or school districts.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 8:30 a.m. in SHR1.  A bad agenda, one that has bills that are anti-poor people, anti-LGBTQ+-people, and pro-Covid.  16 bills on the agenda.

Senate Finance will meet at 9 a.m. in SHR109.  12 bills on the agenda, including SB 1408, expanding tax credits against the luxury privilege tax.  12 bills on the agenda.

House Appropriation meets at 1:30 p.m. or upon recess of the floor in HHR1. 13 bills on the agenda.

House Transportation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  11 bills on the agenda, including HB 2282,  banning photo radar.

Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  6 bills on the agenda, including SB 1166, barring public employers from paying for union activities; and SB 1248, prohibiting beer suppliers from using coercion to compel wholesalers to accept a shipment.

Senate Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  7 bills on the agenda.

On Thursday, 2/10 -

Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109.  13 bills on the agenda, including strikers for SB 1137 (subject "prohibition; consent decree") (text not available as yet) and SB 1191 (subject "union labor; prohibition") (text not available as yet); SB 1352, barring the release of the audio of a minor's 911 call without the permission of the minor's parent or guardian.  Even if the call is about the parent or guardian; and SB 1379, making it a felony to transport or harbor one undocumented immigrant and decreasing the number of undocumented immigrants involved before it becomes an increased level of felony.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  21 bills on the agenda; most bad in an anti-voter or pro-Covid sort of way (most are anti-voter).

State Committee update

Since there are no new committees for statewide office this week, this is a mostly irrelevant post...except for one current legislator running for a Maricopa County office.

From the website of the Maricopa County Recorder's Office -

Rios is the current Senate Democratic Leader in the State Senate.

The Republican Party believes that violence is "legitimate political discourse'...if they like it. Peaceful protest that they don't like? Not so much.

They're quick to praise violence that they like, but they criticize, as violent, that which they don't like.

First, the stuff that they like.  

From CNN -

In censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, RNC calls events of January 6 'legitimate political discourse'

In a resolution formally censuring GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the Republican National Committee on Friday described the events surrounding the January 6, 2021 insurrection -- which have been at the center of a House probe -- as "legitimate political discourse."

A copy of the resolution obtained by CNN claimed that the two lawmakers were "participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse" from their perches on the House select committee, which has conducted interviews with close to 400 individuals -- from members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle to organizers who helped plan the "Stop the Steal" rally on the morning of January 6.

They REALLY should tell themselves that.

From the GOP itself (snippy taken in case they alter this) -

And the stuff they don't like?  (Brennan is a journalist for CBS, McDaniel is the chair of the national GOP.)

From Politico -

Facing bleak November, Republicans look to stoke BLM backlash

For a brief moment after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis policeman in late May, some members of the GOP joined calls for change as protests exploded onto streets across the country. That moment is over.

Facing possible electoral calamity, Republicans are now turning to a familiar playbook: stoking fear by trying to redefine the Black Lives Matter movement as a radical leftist mob looking to sabotage the white, suburban lifestyle.

From CBS News -

Transcript: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel on "Face the Nation," August 23, 2020

[snip]

MARGARET BRENNAN: One area where Republicans also differ from voters overall is on the Black Lives Matter movement. Most voters nationwide agree with the ideas of it, while most Republicans, two-thirds of them, strongly disagree. Eight in 10 Republicans think there has been too much attention on the issue of discrimination. Doesn't this type of thinking hurt Republicans' chances of making gains with Black voters?

MCDANIEL: Well, I think that there's a big distinction between the words "Black lives matter" and the movement, which has been led by people who embrace Marxism, who have said on networks, we want to burn this country down. And I think you have to separate that, because as we are seeing in the name of Black Lives Matter, these riots and these looters who really aren't affiliated with any type of peaceful protest, we all condemn what happened to George Floyd. Republicans and Democrats alike recognize that.

Gotta love the hypocrisy.  Of course, they might consider this political two-step a dance.

Of course2, if it is one, it's a hypocritical one.