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The new-look post-Ronna RNC was trying out a strategy of having grown-ups in a few key positions, and election-denying sycophants in the rest. It didn't work out so well.
One of the grown-ups, and probably the most important one (since chair Michael Whatley and vice-chair Lara Trump are in the sycophant group), was chief counsel Charlie Spies. He's a well respected election law attorney who has been doing this work for nearly 30 years, literally since he was in law school at Georgetown (1998 graduate), and who works for the white shoe law firm Dickinson Wright.
Spies did have one fatal flaw, however, and that was his view that the 2020 election was not stolen, and that RNC resources should not be wasted trying to re-litigate that issue. So, he had to go. It was made to look like a voluntary, "I just don't have the time in my schedule" resignation, but insiders say he was forced out by Donald Trump.
Trump, classy as always, greeted the news by getting on his curiously valuable social media site to post "Great news for the Republican Party. RINO lawyer Charlie Spies is out as Chief Counsel of the RNC." Presumably, Spies will be replaced by someone familiar with the concept of toeing the party line and bowing to the Dear Leader. Too bad John Eastman doesn't have a valid law license anymore. (Z)