November 19, 2020 at 8:09 PM EST
Sen. Sasse rebukes Giuliani, says ‘wild press conferences erode public trust’
By Mike DeBonis and Amanda Erickson
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) rebuked the Trump campaign for its news conference today, saying in a statement that “wild press conferences erode public trust.”
Sasse also called on Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani to stop pressuring electors to “ignore their certification obligations under the statute,” noting that Trump lost Michigan by more than 100,000 votes, and the campaign has lost or withdrawn from five lawsuits because of a lack of evidence.
“We are a nation of laws, not tweets,” said Sasse, who has been more critical of Trump than most Republicans but took criticism for holding his fire as his reelection contest approached this year.
Sasse’s comments Thursday, made in response to a Washington Post request to all GOP senators for comment, are among the strongest criticism that any Republican officeholder has offered of Trump’s campaign to discredit Biden’s election victory.
“What matters most at this stage is not the latest press conference or tweet, but what the President’s lawyers are actually saying in court,” Sasse said in a statement. “And based on what I’ve read in their filings, when Trump campaign lawyers have stood before courts under oath, they have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud — because there are legal consequences for lying to judges.”
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