Trump Campaign Gets Laughed Out Of Court For Claiming A Bunch Of Unvetted Webform Submissions Is 'Evidence' Of Voter Fraud
the judge wasn't impressed by the campaign's attempt to portray a bunch of statements from internet randos as something worth the court's time and attention.
A Trump campaign attorney conceded in court on Thursday morning that
he tried to enter hundreds of dodgy form-filed affidavits into evidence,
even though their own investigation found that a subset of the sworn statements that they received were filled with lies and “spam.”
“This is concerning,” Judge Daniel Kiley, from Arizona’s Maricopa County, remarked with some understatement.
This wasn't the only laughable assertion by Trump campaign attorney, Kory Langhofer. On the record and in front of a judge,
Langhofer said the campaign was confident it had weeded out bot submissions because the site had a CAPTCHA.
claiming the narratives the Trump campaign couldn't immediately disprove must be truthful representations.
Not being able to prove something is a lie isn't the same thing as finding it to be true, the judge pointed out.
Judge Kiley replied that this did not show the remaining affidavits are trustworthy.
“That just shows you cannot disprove what’s asserted,” Kiley noted.
Then, despite entering the legal arena to dispute alleged fraud,
the Trump attorney said it was unlikely anyone actually engaged in fraud.
“This is not a fraud case,” Langhofer said, casting the lawsuit instead as allegations of flaws within the voting system. “
It is not a stealing-the-election case.”
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