Elizabeth Neumann: The battle for the soul of the US Republican Party
The Interview24 Feb 2021

Elizabeth Neumann: The battle for the soul of the US Republican Party

How far does the Republican party need to go to reinvent itself following Donald Trumps defeat in the November Presidential election? Elizabeth Neumann, a former counter terror official in the Trump Administration says she saw America’s far right, white-supremacists as a growing security threat and she felt Donald Trump was fanning the flames of their extremism. In April 2020 she resigned. Now she says she is fighting for what she calls accountability in the Republican party - but has her stand come too late?

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