Kari Lake’s husband, Jeff Halperin, has filed a Movement to Dismiss in self-proclaimed “Anti-MAGA” RINO Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s lawsuit towards Lake, Halperin, and Lake’s marketing campaign as a sanction for Richer’s repeated discovery violations within the ongoing lawsuit.
The submitting begins by exposing the true motive behind this lawsuit by the anti-Lake official and Democrat operatives at Soros-backed Defend Democracy:
“This Maricopa County official seethed privately with a want to ‘make life hell’ for Kari Lake. This Maricopa County official envied Lake’s title recognition and recognition as a result of it was superior to his personal. This Maricopa County official deserted a run for U.S. Senate believing he couldn’t beat Lake in a main. This Maricopa County official was the topic of criticism, ridicule, and even loss of life threats lengthy earlier than Lake uttered a single phrase about him. This Maricopa County official makes $76,600 yearly however is represented by twelve legal professionals: 5 from a Manhattan-based Am Regulation 200 regulation agency, 4 from a Washinton, D.C. nonprofit, two native counsel, and a Harvard Regulation Faculty Professor who in 2021 was White Home Counsel and Particular Assistant to President Joseph R. Biden. This Maricopa County official additionally most likely couldn’t afford the $25,345.50 he was ordered by the Courtroom to pay to a 3rd celebration subpoena recipient, however his legal professionals have refused to reveal the monetary phrases of their engagement.”
The Gateway Pundit not too long ago reported that deposition transcripts within the case reveal that Richer, a complete Lake hater, contemplated operating for Senate to “make life hell for Kari Lake” and admitted that he’s “anti-MAGA,” in line with personal textual content messages.
Moreover, Richer’s textual content messages revealed that Richer admitted Lake is a political “behemoth.” His deposition additional reveals that he internally polled his reputation and located that Lake’s is way above his personal. Learn the total deposition under. Beginning on web page 99 of Exhibit A, “Deposition of Stephen Isidore Richer,” Richer’s true motives are revealed.
Beforehand, former Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem, State Sen. Anthony Kern, and US Rep. Paul Gosar have been compelled to pay $75,000 in attorneys charges after a Decide dominated towards them in a defamation lawsuit towards former State Rep. Charlene Fernandez. In response to the lawsuit, Fernandez “co-authored, signed, and revealed a false and deceptive Prison Referral Letter to the Appearing Lawyer Normal of the US,” claiming the legislators “by phrases and conduct, aided and abetted sedition, treason or every other federal crimes.” Nonetheless, the Decide ruled that Fernandez’s conduct was protected by the First Modification, and the lawsuit was “filed towards a political opponent primarily for functions of harassment.”
Having a objective to make a political opponent’s life hell and suing them for criticizing you, like Richer did, positive seems like harassment, if not an try to intervene within the election.
The Movement additional outlines three the reason why dismissal is warranted, together with Richer’s violation of a courtroom order requiring him to reveal “a computation and measure of every class of damages,” in addition to his failure to reveal the existence of a taxpayer-funded “data mining operation,” which he and workplace workers used to compile news stories and social media about him, seemingly for marketing campaign functions and proof within the lawsuit.
One other violation of discovery guidelines is the current deletion of Richer’s X/Twitter account, inflicting “any related discovery in Richer’s X account” to be misplaced. In a cryptic and weird assertion to The Gateway Pundit, Richer defined why he deleted his web page proper in the course of an election, saying, “I get to do what makes me blissful now.”
The Movement additionally argues that the lawsuit is “farcical” and seeks responsible Kari Lake for hurt to Richer’s already tarnished popularity, which he created on his personal by opposing GOP efforts to audit the 2020 election and attacking President Trump and MAGA repeatedly.
Richer has been overtly hostile to Trump and his supporters, which, as seen on November 5, 2024, represents the vast majority of Arizona.
Halperin’s lawyer additionally notes that Lake’s “intentional” and “strategic” default within the lawsuit earlier this year was meant to maintain Lake on the marketing campaign path and oblige Richer to provide all uncover to show his alleged damages, an obligation that he “shirked and evaded.” Richer’s refusal to adjust to discovery requests and destruction of related proof “permits dismissal as a sanction,” Halperin’s lawyer argues.
Learn the total submitting and deposition transcript under:
