What the Kari Lake election fraud micro trial shows you about systemic corruption

As I expected, it's more bad news.

Here in Arizona Kari Lake actually managed to get something that never happened in the 2020 election challenges. I say it was a “micro” trial because 80% of her claims were thrown out, her team only got to look at a tiny slice of the election fraud evidence (Yes, even if it was only intentional voter suppression and omitting chain of custody, that is properly called election fraud. And it was much more than just that.), and they also only got 6 hours to make their case in court. So woefully, pathetically, and completely inadequate.

Nevertheless, her team showed overwhelmingly that republican votes were suppressed on election day, and that Maricopa County did NOT maintain a proper chain of custody. Not even close.

As an added bonus, at least three of Katie Hobbs’ witnesses committed perjury.

1. Scott Jarrett lied about knowing anything about a 19 inch ballot image. He was asked multiple questions on day one about a 19 inch image on 20 inch ballot paper, and he denied any knowledge of it. On day two the evidence of 19 inch ballot images on 20 inch paper had been revealed, so Jarrett changed his tune and told how he knew about what he thought was a “fit to paper” setting change. He later used the words “shrink to fit”. (The latter is a setting in Adobe.) He went on to state that this issue had happened in 3 prior elections!! So it’s supposedly an ongoing problem, but yet he also added that they were still doing root cause analysis. The fact he denied any knowledge of a smaller ballot image, from any cause, on day one is 100% evidence that he perjured himself.

2. Rayn Macias, who had been in the courtroom on day one, was somehow allowed to testify remotely via Zoom (or whatever video conferencing software). When questions were being read to him, he was looking straight into the camera. When he was answering, he was looking down and very clearly reading off his answers. One of Kari Lake’s attorneys objected to his reading twice, and twice the judge just asked Macias if he was reading his answers. Macias denied it twice, and thus obviously perjured himself. If you have any doubts about this, watch the video. Note that the video snippets there in that linked Twitter thread do not show Macias being read the questions. When you see that part also with him looking straight into the camera only when the questions are being asked, it’s obvious beyond belief he lied to the judge twice about reading his answers.

3. Another Hobbs' witness was nothing more than a left wing hack Trump hater. He’s made many public comments about how all the election challenges in 2020 were “conspiracy theories”. He also publicly repeated the lie about a capitol police officer being murdered.

   

   

   These tweets surfaced right about the time he was “testifying”, and shortly after he was done lying on the stand he hid his profile from public view. More importantly, his testimony was that the long lines and very long wait times in Maricopa County had no effect at all on voter turnout. He was not in Maricopa County on election day, so he has no first hand knowledge, and in fact he did not even try to verify the narrative from Maricopa County at all!!! So he was just a paid shill!!

It gets better though, as DOCTOR Fraud Denier (The pompous ass corrected Kari Lake’s attorney when he referred to him as Mister Mayer. He demanded to be called “DOCTOR Mayer”.), like so many left wing pseudo academics, has co-written a number of papers. One of them just happens to deal with long lines and wait times at polling places.

Do you suppose that paper concluded that long lines and long wait times have no effect at all to suppress voters, like he testified?? Well no of course that’s not what the papers says. I don’t have direct access to the paper, but someone took a screen shot of the relevant portion of the conclusions:

So you’ve got 3 of Katie Hobbs witnesses perjuring themselves. While the paper co-authored by Dr. Fraud Denier was not brought into evidence, it was made clear to the judge that the pompous ass had no first hand knowledge and had done no research or investigation AT ALL of his own to verify anything he was testifying about. So he was a completely useless paid shill. The very fact he was called should have been an additional negative against Hobbs even if the judge had no idea that he was perjuring himself based on his previous professional writing from less than four years ago.

It’s Christmas Eve so I’m not going to spend time delving into the compelling evidence Kari Lake’s team presented, but you can find it and watch it for yourself if you haven’t already. Suffice it to say that even though we got this micro trial, the end result was just more confirmation of how horribly corrupt our legal system and political system have become. The judge in this case was either a coward or is corrupt. There is NO other option. The factual evidence and testimony presented was far more than enough to meet the standard in civil matters.