Republican Washington state House member Jacquelyn Maycumber on Tuesday released a statement denying she had ever tweeted “Enough is enough. Please vote blue this November. With our President’s ignorance when it comes to lockdowns, racial justice and women’s issues, we cannot allow Donald Trump to have a second term #RepublicansforBiden” in 2020 and ripped into the state’s losing GOP gubernatorial nominee from that year (and Trump-endorsed 2022 WA-04 primary loser) Loren Culp for retweeting a screenshot of the “deepfake,” the Spokesman-Review reports.

“Loren Culp has obsessed over my candidacy for Congress. He knowingly promoted false deepfake tweets. He pretends to defend election integrity but knowingly promotes material designed to influence the election for another candidate. He needs to issue a retraction on the electronic impersonation ‘deepfake’ tweets. If he fails to do so we will take legal action,” wrote Maycumber.

We were to understand that something needed to be AI-generated and not just photoshopped to qualify as a “deepfake,” but here we are with Republican-on-Republican rhetorical violence and defamation lawsuit threats. Contacted by the Spokesman-Review, Culp said simply “I don’t even remember doing that. So I retweeted it and she hired lawyers? It’s America, right – she can get a lawyer to do anything.” Washington’s 4th is particularly important for MAGA as Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse is one of just two remaining incumbents or the 10 “RINOs” who voted to impeach disgraced former President Trump following the January 6th insurrection that he incited.

Maycumber might already be screwed anyway because she endorsed Nikki Haley a few months ago, which makes her just as much of a “RINO” as the guy who tried to help remove Trump from office.