'Having a meltdown': RNC Chair slammed after claiming NYT story is 'completely false'

'Having a meltdown': RNC Chair slammed after claiming NYT story is 'completely false'
Gage Skidmore
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel repeatedly voted by mail  — before suing California for expanding the practice
David Badash
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 The New Civil Rights Movement
February 05, 2022

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel is outraged at The New York Times, claiming – falsely – that the paper's article on her resolution that claims January 6 participants were merely engaging in "legitimate political discourse" is "completely false" and "the worst type of baseless political propaganda."

This is the resolution the RNC overwhelmingly passed Friday, that specifically makes the exact same claim as the article's title (first page, last paragraph.):

But McDaniel goes on to indict herself, using the exact same quote that appears in the article's headline. In her next tweet she writes: "Cheney and Kinzinger chose to join Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol," and adds: "The NYT needs to correct this story now, or again expose themselves as political hacks."

McDaniel was highly criticized.

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