Kari Lake and the Trump movement’s billion-dollar defamation problem

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Kari Lake and the Trump movement’s billion-dollar defamation problem
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Lake has given up on trying to defend her statements about an election official rigging the 2022 election against her. It’s the latest defamation setback in a party defined by shameless claims.

Then-Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake joins former president Donald Trump at a rally in Mesa, Ariz., in October 2022. For the second time in eight months, a top Donald Trump ally has, extraordinarily, declined to try to prove they didn’t defame an election worker. Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has joined former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in that distinction.

Throw in the $787.5 million Fox News agreed to pay a voting machine company over bogus theories it aired bolstering Trump’s stolen-election claims and the $148 million judgment against Giuliani, and the combined bill is north of $1 billion — and potentially growing, thanks to Lake’s capitulation and The latest big news is Lake’s declining to defend her statements about Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer , whom she repeatedly accused of deliberately sabotaging her narrow 2022 loss for Arizona governor.

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