Former GOP Rep. Labels Trump the ‘Patron Saint of Sore Losers,’ Urges Party To Move On
Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) is urging the Republican Party to move on from former President Donald Trump , who she claims is a “diminished political figure.” In an op-ed published in The New York Times on…
Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) is urging the Republican Party to move on from former President Donald Trump, who she claims is a “diminished political figure.”
In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Thursday, Comstock said, “When Donald Trump, the patron saint of sore losers, appeared at a Republican event on Saturday night and compared the 2020 election to a ‘third-world-country election like we’ve never seen before,’ it wasn’t just another false rant from the former president.”
“His words also described his attempted subversion of democracy in the run-up to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol,” she explained.
Comstock recalled Trump’s attempts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election. She also noted the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol when Congress met to certify the election.
The former Congresswoman argued that instead of opposing a commission to investigate the riot, Republicans “need to be at the forefront of seeking answers on the insurrection and diminishing the power of QAnon and the other conspiracy theories that Mr. Trump has fueled.”
She went on to argue that Trump is not as much of a formidable force as he used to be: