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https://www.newsweek.com/former-republican-staffer-admits-gop-would-intentionally-spread-lies-1818999
The Republican Party uses right-wing media to knowingly
spread lies, according to an ex-Republican political
adviser and researcher who spoke with Newsweek.
Justin Higgins was formerly a policy adviser for House
Republican Tim Huelskamp, a Kansas legislator who at the
time was one of the outspoken members of the Tea Party
movement that gained national notoriety between 2009 and
2015.
After Huelskamp lost his primary and congressional seat
in 2016, Higgins became a senior research analyst for the
Republican National Committee (RNC) and created content
associated with Donald Trump's presidential bid that year.
That experience didn't last long and nearly immediately
led to Higgins changing his political affiliation from
Republican to Democrat, becoming a political appointee
of then-Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello.
Higgins told progressive podcaster Aaron Rupar on Thursday
that the conservative movement is predicated on selling
lies to the American public for their own potential
political gain.
"You can basically make up your own reality in right-wing
media," Higgins told Rupar.
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