Grand Canyon Times

Following former President Donald Trump’s crucial endorsement in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, one of the snubbed candidates decided that the best response would be to go full Leftist in his attacks against the former president’s pick.

As Breitbart News reported, after Trump announced that he would be supporting author and venture capitalist Blake Masters for the nomination to take on Sen. Mark Kelly, solar power businessman Jim Lamon immediately released a long-winded statement criticizing Trump’s endorsement as “disappointing.”

He falsely smeared Masters as “a wholly owned subsidiary of a Big Tech, California billionaire,” and vowed that he would win even without the support of the popular former president.

Lamon’s statement, however, is filled not only with lies about Masters, but lies about himself in order to boost his so-called “America First” credentials.

Lamon claims that “there is no candidate in this race who has fought harder to support the America First movement than me,” and also describes himself as “a staunch supporter of President Trump’s 'America First' policies.”

However, a quick look through Lamon’s business career proves that this “America First” label is categorically false.

As a businessman specializing in the solar power industry, Lamon spent years doing business with Chinese companies to the tune of millions of dollars. And as recently as 2018, Lamon was using Time magazine to publicly criticize Trump’s "America First" approach to trade, particularly his use of tariffs to crack down on China’s fraudulent trade practices.

His motivation for this line of attack was, and remains, crystal clear: A protectionist stance on trade is detrimental to his foreign business interests.

But continuing on his shameless attempt to paint Masters as the "anti-America First" candidate, Lamon followed this statement with a stunningly radical attack ad containing numerous false claims about Masters, including the idea that he quoted a Nazi and said that World War II was an unjust war.

He also bizarrely claimed that Masters is an anti-Semite, a smear that is not supported by facts. Breitbart noted that Lamon’s statement and attack ad were swiftly condemned by other pro-Trump Republicans across the country, including Trump-endorsed Ohio congressional candidate Max Miller, who is himself Jewish, and the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. Masters himself quickly dismissed the laughable ad as “journalist tactics,” and asked the voters of Arizona if someone who would “stoop this low” is truly worthy of their support.

From his blatant attempts to mask his "China First" record and instead portray himself as an "America First" candidate, to his resorting to the cheapest of false and Leftist smears to go after the chosen candidate of Trump, Lamon has proved that not only does he not have Arizona’s best interests at heart, but he is also grossly unqualified for the U.S. Senate.

Trump may have made the best case for choosing Masters in August, but Lamon himself made the best case for not voting for Lamon in the same primary.