Kari Lake continues to tell Arizona voters the election was stolen while admitting the truth in court.
https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/kari-lake-defamation-admission-damages-hearing-stephen-richer-2020-election/article_b9f48480-ebb1-11ee-902b-bfdf8fa20c64.html
In a sudden change, Kari Lake now admits she discredited Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, her fellow Republican.
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Richer declared her decision a total victory for him and his fight to clear his name of the accusations she made.
“It’s now official that she accepts that this is all a lie,” he told Capitol Media Services.
He said Lake knew she was lying because judges in other election cases she filed challenging her loss in the 2022 governorship race found no basis for her claims about intentionally missed ballots or fraudulent ballots being counted inserted. Democrat Katie Hobbs defeated Lake by 17,117 votes.
In a very Trumpian move, Lake admitted to defamation and lying about the 2022 election in court, but then released a video in which she continued to lie to Republican voters.
Kari Lake is using the same tactics that Donald Trump has embraced. She will tell the truth in court, but continue to publicly push the lie to her Republican supporters.
Lake is currently trying to flip Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, but her chances of boosting Republicans in November took a major hit when Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided not to run for re-election as an independent. In a two-person race, Lake trails Democrat Reuben Gallego.
As always, for every member of Trump’s Republican Party, pay attention to what they do in court, not what they say in public, because Kari Lake’s lawsuits don’t match the claims she’s making to voters.
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