Ahead of its schedule Phoenix Rally SaturdayDonald Trump has taken aim at an Arizona senator who criticized the Trump-inspired election audit.
The former president issued a press release on Thursday criticizing Sen. Paul Boyer, R-Glendale, for doing “everything in his power to delay the damning forensic audit of Maricopa County.”
To which Boyer tweeted a response, noting Trump’s failure to build the border wall and his role in instigating the January 6 uprising on the US Capitol. He also took a picture of Trump being banned from Twitter, making it difficult to engage in a back-and-forth with the former president.
Don’t worry: Trump’s allies were quick to pile in, criticizing Boyer, as Trump did, for being a RINO (Republican in name only), among other things.
Boyer told The Arizona Republic he had no idea what inspired the former president’s comments.
But earlier in the week, in response to a constituent from Boyer District in the Northwest Valley, the state senate speaker Karen Fann tweeted that Boyer would not vote for a Senate resolution scorning the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for refusing to provide all election-related documents that Senate Republicans demanded.
Boyer was the only resistant in February, denying the Senate the ability to arrest county officials.
In response to Fann’s tweet, Boyer replied that she had promised Republican senators that the cost to the taxpayer would not exceed $150,000. And he blamed her for not revealing who she intended to hire.
“If you had told us this was an inexperienced, partisan business, I wouldn’t have been the only one objecting to it,” Boyer tweeted.
Boyer is not delaying the audit, as Trump has charged. The effort at the state’s fairgrounds is entering its fourth month, and the initial manual count of nearly 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots was conducted by Senate contractor Cyber Ninjas.
Boyer said the audit is proceeding as a misguided partisan effort.
“I have always been in favor of a legitimate audit,” he told La République. “It’s illegitimate.”
The only way to stop it would be through a Senate resolution, Boyer said, adding that’s a bleak prospect given that Senate Republicans haven’t shown signs of letting go. audit.
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