In the wake of the bribery scandal engulfing the Arizona Republican Party, Donald Trump has canceled his planned speech at Friday’s Arizona Freedom Fest, per journalist Cameron Arcand.
I can independently confirm that President Trump will *not* be speaking tomorrow in Arizona following the DeWit/Lake controversy, according to a source.
However, the party is still working to hold a rally tomorrow without Trump.
— Cameron Arcand (@cameron_arcand) January 25, 2024
For background, on Tuesday the Daily Mail published an audio recording of then-Arizona Republican Party chair Jeff DeWit speaking with Kari Lake in March 2023 in which he told her that “very powerful people back east” did not want her to run for Kyrsten Sinema’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024 and were willing to pay millions of dollars for her to stay out of politics for a few years. Lake declined the offer.
On Wednesday DeWit…
