December 4, 2021: The Myth of the "Stolen Election" Takes another Kick in the Nuts.

12/4/21: The “Myth of the Stolen 2020 Election” took another kick in the groin when U.S. District Judge Linda Parker ruled that Trump lawyers who filed suit in Michigan, claiming massive voter fraud, had presented a “frivolous” case. Their case, she said, consisted mostly of “speculation and conjecture.” 

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An attempt “to undermine the integrity of the judiciary.” 

Judge Linda Parker

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Therefore, Judge Parker ruled, they must pay the state and city of Detroit $175,000 in restitution. 

In a 110-page ruling, the judge went on to say, 

Despite the haze of confusion, commotion and chaos counsel intentionally attempted to create by filing this lawsuit, one thing is perfectly clear: Plaintiffs’ attorneys have scorned their oath, flouted the rules, and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way.

 

Individuals may have a right – within certain bounds – to disseminate allegations of fraud unsupported by law or fact in the public sphere. But attorneys cannot exploit their privilege and access to the judicial process to do the same. 

 

In a final slap at the nine legal bozos who filed the case, Parker, ordered each of them to undergo a twelve-hour course of legal education, including six hours related to election law. 

The “Myth” also took a poke in the eye when two Georgia poll workers sued the right-wing website, Gateway Pundit, its founder and editor Jim Hoft, and his brother, writer Joe Hoft, for defamation. The workers allege they were victims of repeated and demonstrably false claims that portrayed them as “traitors” who conspired to “steal the presidential election in Georgia.” (See: 12/17/21; 12/28/21.) 

Since both the Georgia governor and the Georgia Secretary of State, who has charge of all elections, say nothing in 2020 was stolen, Gateway Pundit is likely to find itself standing in legal quicksand. 

The Pundit folks may have to argue that they’re a parody website. That’s probably the only chance they’ve got.

 

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MEANWHILE, zany pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood has bitten the hand that fed him and gnawed off the index finger and thumb. Always ready to put forward any conspiracy theory, if only the Trump base will fall for it, L. now claims the whole QAnon shtick is “likely a Deep State operation.” 

If that isn’t enough, L. suddenly realizes that General Michael T. Flynn, of the pardoned-felons club founded by President Trump, is a “General of the Deep State” and “Stop the Steal” was a “Deep State organization to raise money for other purposes than to FIX2020.” That last may be partially true since all kinds of grifters latched onto Trump’s coattails in the last five years. 

Including L. Lin Wood. (See: 12/19/21.)

Like Trump, Wood talks a lot about putting people in jail, 
who have never been accused of any crimes.

He insisted the Republicans who controlled Georgia rigged the election against Trump.