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Maricopa County Recorder Richer filed a defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake for her remarks made regarding the 2022 election. During speeches Lake has claimed Richer purposely had ballots printed to the wrong size and purposely injected illegal ballots.
www.azmirror.com
Lake wants the suit dismissed. In the opening hearing Lake's lawyers are claiming her statements were just her opinion but are backed by facts therefore protected under the freedom speech.
"Attorneys for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake argued in court on Tuesday that a judge should dismiss Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation lawsuit against her, saying that Lake’s claims were “rhetorical hyperbole” and not meant to be taken as facts.
When Lake said that Richer was somehow involved in the illegal injection of bogus ballots or that he “sabotaged” the election, those statements weren’t meant to be taken as facts, Wright said.
“Those are her opinions about the facts,” Wright told the court.
For example, Lake told her followers during a Jan. 29 “Save Arizona Rally” that Richer and Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates intentionally printed incorrectly sized ballot images on Election Day 2022 as a form of “sabotage” because they knew that the majority of in-person voters that day would be Republicans supporting Lake, and that the incorrectly-sized ballots would cause the tabulators to reject those ballots.
This was one of the claims that judges in Arizona trial, appeals and the state Supreme Court threw out during Lake’s election challenge cases.
While ballot printing issues caused significant delays and frustration at the polls in Maricopa County in 2022, ballots that were rejected by the tabulators were later counted.
www.azmirror.com
Here again is a person who wants things tossed because they believe what they say are true.
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PHOENIX — Kari Lake’s lawyers told a judge Tuesday a defamation suit against her should be thrown out because she believes her statements about injected ballots and sabotaged voting machines in the 2022 election she lost are true.
tucson.com
imo, Lake is not to be trusted then when she gives speeches. Who knows when it is an opinion or stating facts. And she wants to be our Senator. Good luck with that.
Richer sues Lake for defamation
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is suing Kari Lake for defamation, after enduring an onslaught of vitriol and false claims.
www.azmirror.com
Lake wants the suit dismissed. In the opening hearing Lake's lawyers are claiming her statements were just her opinion but are backed by facts therefore protected under the freedom speech.
"Attorneys for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake argued in court on Tuesday that a judge should dismiss Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation lawsuit against her, saying that Lake’s claims were “rhetorical hyperbole” and not meant to be taken as facts.
When Lake said that Richer was somehow involved in the illegal injection of bogus ballots or that he “sabotaged” the election, those statements weren’t meant to be taken as facts, Wright said.
“Those are her opinions about the facts,” Wright told the court.
For example, Lake told her followers during a Jan. 29 “Save Arizona Rally” that Richer and Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates intentionally printed incorrectly sized ballot images on Election Day 2022 as a form of “sabotage” because they knew that the majority of in-person voters that day would be Republicans supporting Lake, and that the incorrectly-sized ballots would cause the tabulators to reject those ballots.
This was one of the claims that judges in Arizona trial, appeals and the state Supreme Court threw out during Lake’s election challenge cases.
While ballot printing issues caused significant delays and frustration at the polls in Maricopa County in 2022, ballots that were rejected by the tabulators were later counted.
Lake lawyers say her claims about Richer were ‘hyperbole’
Kari Lake's lawyers asked a judge to dismiss Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation lawsuit against her.
www.azmirror.com
Here again is a person who wants things tossed because they believe what they say are true.
"
PHOENIX — Kari Lake’s lawyers told a judge Tuesday a defamation suit against her should be thrown out because she believes her statements about injected ballots and sabotaged voting machines in the 2022 election she lost are true.
Attorney: Kari Lake believes statements that lawsuit calls defamatory
All of Lake's claims about why the election she lost for Arizona governor should be overturned have been rejected by courts, but her lawyer says she stands by them.
tucson.com
imo, Lake is not to be trusted then when she gives speeches. Who knows when it is an opinion or stating facts. And she wants to be our Senator. Good luck with that.
