The former president was angered by Charlie Spies’s criticism of his false 2020 election-fraud claims.

The top lawyer at the Republican Party is resigning after he cited conflicts with his other work obligations and after Donald Trump grew angry about his criticism of the former president’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, people familiar with the situation said Saturday night.

The lawyer, Charlie Spies, is a long-respected GOP election operative who was hired by Trump’s top lieutenants in March after the former president engineered a takeover of the Republican National Committee, which in recent years has been the party’s main operation in both fundraising and field operations.

Trump had approved of the hiring but later learned about additional comments the lawyer had made. Spies in the past had worked for, either directly or indirectly, former Florida governor Jeb Bush ®, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ®. He was liked by Trump’s top advisers, who orchestrated his hiring even though they knew he was skeptical of Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.

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    6 months ago

    Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for the Montagne of 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the uncle.

    Stalin was a tragedy. Trump is a farce.

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      I remember reading stories of how the SS was simultaneously shooting regular army soldiers for retreating in the face of the Soviets and looting the Treasury for gold to ship to Argentina so they could retire in peace.

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      Trump is then Hitler’s farce … Stalin was of a whole different caliber, I am not sure who would be his farce, I’d almost say Putin but he’s definitely not a farce as per the term.

      But all in all, I keep saying Trump’s every declaration should be taken very seriously. He will not shun frothing up his followers into a violent frenzy. He also is very set on destroying the constitution and law book…