The latest person from Arizona to stick a pin in the Donald Trump voodoo doll

If a Democratic politician published the address of a Republican politician on a social media platform known to attract kooks and extremists, and then one of those kooks and extremists threatened that politician and was nabbed by authorities with loaded firearms, I can’t imagine Republican politicians or their friends in the right-wing media would be talking about anything else.

But …

It was former President Donald Trump who leaked former President Barack Obama’s address on Trump’s Truth Social media platform, which led to the arrest of a man the Justice Department called “a direct threat to multiple political figures as well as the public at large.”

So … that story quietly went away and we’re left to other concerns.

Calling out Trump's 'reckless handling' of documents

Like how the latest Arizona pin was stuck in the Donald Trump voodoo doll by Stephanie Grisham, former spokesperson for then-Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and the Republican majority at the Arizona House of Representatives who moved onto the Trump campaign and eventually all they way to White House press secretary.

Grisham appeared on MSNBC and proceeded to throw Trump under the bus over his reckless handling of classified documents.

She said, “I watched him show documents to people at Mar-a-Lago on the dining room patio. So, he has no respect for classified information. Never did.”

Grisham joins a long line of Arizona Republicans to take down Trump for all manner of offenses. Or to get tangled up in those offenses themselves.

Just recently we learned that U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed the Arizona Secretary of State's Office information related to two bogus lawsuits, one from Trump's campaign and another from former Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward, that alleged errors and fraud in the 2020 presidential results.

Lawmakers subpoenaed; Rusty Bowers speaks to the FBI

Who knows what that may yield.

We know as well that Smith subpoenaed Republican members of the Arizona Legislature, including House Speaker Ben Toma and Senate President Warren Petersen.

We watched former Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers testify before the Jan. 6 committee about how, when the minions of Trump could produce no evidence that there had been election fraud in Arizona, and when Bowers found none during his own investigation, he refused to ignore his oath, abandon the law and the Constitution, void the decision of voters and declare Trump the winner of the presidential election in Arizona.

And how Trump turned on him.

Bowers said, “The thought that if you don’t do what we like, then we will just get rid of you and march on and do it ourselves – that to me is fascism.”

'He's potentially putting people in danger'

Bowers also recently told CNN that he has spoken with the FBI as part of the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the vote.

We know as well about the pressure to put on Republican Maricopa County Supervisors Clint Hickman, Jack Sellers and Bill Gates, and Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, all of whom refused to be bullied into abandoning their oaths.

And we know as well about Arizona’s slate of fake electors here, led by Kelli Ward. Their goal was to replace the state’s legitimate 11 presidential electors, committed by the vote to go for Joe Biden, with fake Trump electors.

Trump has been charged with 37 felony counts related to the mishandling of classified documents, obstructing justice and making false statements. And more charges may come from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and from possible election tampering in Georgia.

Of the documents, Grisham said, "To be showing it to people who haven’t gone through the extreme vetting that you go through to get a clearance, it’s you know, it’s a disservice to the country, but it also puts people in danger potentially.”

She added, "I can’t stress enough how by being so loose with this stuff, he’s potentially putting people in danger."

That doesn’t seem to be a problem for the former president.

Ask the Obamas.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Yet another Arizona figure sticks a pin in The Donald voodoo doll