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At this second, the percentages of prosecuting Donald Trump in Georgia for election crimes are declining precipitously due to Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis’s disastrously poor judgment.
However whereas we await the choice from Choose Scott McAfee on whether or not to disqualify her entire workplace — or worse — let’s take a subject journey down the corridor, to the courtroom of Choose Rachelle Carnesale the place the previous president’s allies are being compelled to confess that they’ve zero proof to again up their claims of election fraud.
In that case, the State Election Board is suing a “non-profit” referred to as “True the Vote.” In 2021, TTV purchased up a bunch of cell tower knowledge and supposedly analyzed it to seek out that sure telephones have been close to a bunch of poll drop bins on a number of events. This hardly appears exceptional, significantly for the reason that bins have been in public locations like libraries and publish workplaces. However TTV spun it right into a story of “mules” ferrying pretend ballots from “stash homes” and claimed to have confidential sources who might show that the variety of fraudulent ballots in seven swing states exceeded President Biden’s margin of victory. TTV’s wild tales shaped the idea of the film “2000 Mules,” produced by skilled shit-stirrer Dinesh D’Souza.
The film was immediately and hilariously debunked, and D’Souza’s e-book on the topic was pulped and reissued with among the extra defamation-y stuff excised. However, it was screened at Mar-a-Lago, the place Trump hyped it as proof of his victory, and was even cited by Rudy Giuliani in his disbarment listening to in help of his claims that election fraud is actual.
Within the meantime, TTV discovered itself in a sticky state of affairs in Georgia, the place it filed a grievance with the state Board of Elections in November of 2021 primarily based on the claims of poll “trafficking” from the Mule film. However because it turned out, the BOE truly does examine that stuff, and so it requested TTV properly to again up its allegations with some proof. And when that didn’t work, in April of 2022, the BOE issued a subpoena duces tecum for the docs TTV had claimed to have in its possession.
At that time, TTV sought to withdraw its grievance, demurring that it merely had to guard its confidential sources from the Deep State, or Antifa, or perhaps even KILLARY herself. However the BOE mentioned no cube and sued in July of 2023 to implement its subpoenas. Choose Carnesale agreed in November, and so right this moment, after some extra wrangling, TTV was lastly compelled to admit that they’ve bought bupkis.
About that supposed “community of non-governmental organizations that labored collectively to facilitate a poll trafficking scheme in Georgia” described to them by one “John Doe”?
TTV doesn’t retain such information in its possession, custody, or management.
How about that “bartender who got here in from South Carolina” to assist with the alleged poll harvesting scheme in Georgia?
TTV doesn’t have in its possession, custody, or management, such id and phone data or any such objects regarding her.
Does TTV have any of the recordings or transcripts of the calls which flooded in to its Georgia Election Integrity Hotline?
TTV’s information present it had contacts from roughly 117 Georgia residents by means of its hotline in Georgia, however particulars relating to these contacts are now not accessible because of the 2022 termination of the reporting service used through the Oct. 2020/Jan. 2021 time interval.
And about these supposed “confidentiality agreements” TTV pointed to as the rationale it couldn’t adjust to the subpoena?
TTV has no such paperwork in its possession, custody, or management.
Stunning! I imply, not as stunning because the unmitigated shitshow down the corridor in Choose McAfee’s courtroom. However, nonetheless …
True the Vote fails to reveal evidence of Georgia voting fraud claims [AJC]
Liz Dye lives in Baltimore the place she produces the Regulation and Chaos substack and podcast.
