Trump Says Arizona Republican Who Slammed Election Audit ‘Has Been Nothing But Trouble’

The audit is focused on Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest, where then-Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden won by more than 2 percentage points in the November 2020 election, slammed by former President Donald Trump as “the most corrupt” vote in US history.

Ex-US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Arizona Republican Paul Boyer, in his latest attack against all those GOP members in the state against the ongoing partisan election audit.

In a message issued through Trump’s Save America Political Action Committee (PAC) on Thursday, the former POTUS called Boyer a “RINO”, or Republican in Name Only, and heaped praise on his primary challenger.

“Republican Arizona State Senator Paul Boyer […] is doing everything in his power to hold up the damning Forensic Audit of Maricopa County which has been taking place over the last 90 days. The people of Arizona are demanding it. Boyer has been nothing but trouble, and nobody knows why. All we demand is Voter Integrity! He is being primaried by a strong and highly respected challenger, former Arizona State Representative Anthony Kern”, Trump said.

Boyer was quick to respond by posting a sarcastic tweet about America’s southern border, reports the auditors were looking for bamboo fibres from China in ballots, and the 6 January Capitol riots.

“Had Trump built the wall like he promised, perhaps he could’ve prevented the 40k #BambooBallots from being imported into Arizona. And if he hadn’t started an insurrection in D.C. and gotten kicked off here, I could’ve responded directly to him. So there’s that”, the state senator tweeted.

Building a wall on the US-Mexican border was one of Trump’s core campaign promises, with the 45th president repeatedly arguing the wall helps to curb illegal immigration, human and drug trafficking.