The dubious way that the Trump campaign is collecting “evidence” to support its post-election litigation was exposed in a Thursday hearing in its “SharpieGate” lawsuit in Arizona.
Nah, just GOP SOP 24/7/365.
Damn hard to slide one past a judge that doesn’t want to be used.
In other words, the judge is telling them that their evidence, by their own admission, is not trustworthy, and that the premise of their lawsuit is unfounded.
Only.The.Very.Best.
Langhofer tried to suggest that because the declarations were submitted under punishment perjury, they could be trusted. But then the judge pointed out that the ones the campaign itself deemed to be fake were submitted under that disclaimer as well.
“If your process for gathering declarations has yielded sworn statements under oath that your investigation has determined to be false, that doesn’t give me any reason to believe that your process is one that generates trustworthy affidavits,” Kiley said. “It simply generated affidavits that you can’t prove are not true. That’s not the same as being trustworthy.”
Langhofer is going to known as Laughoffer before this is done.
You’d end up serving 5>10 if one of Trump’s lawyers represented you in court for a zoning infraction on a porch build.
Langhofer also admitted that they filtered out those declarants who were deemed obviously fake, because they used … profanity in their email addresses.
This is what happens when you ask morons to swear an affidavit, Attorney Langhofer.
Could we please, please, please, pretty please, with a cherry on top, stop referring to every fake "scandal’ as “gate”. It’s lazy, boring and dumb. Besides I thought SharpieGate was when Trump used a Sharpie to make the hurricane go towards Alabama…
No, really, I swear, my sister had Bigfoot’s baby!!
I wouldn’t NOAA about that.
Yeah, but the billable hours for reviewing all those submitted forms!
Trump campaign’s attorney pointed to the CAPTCHA tool they used to filter out bots.
I see the problem here. The people filling out the form ARE bots. Trump Bots.
So, are the Trump lawyers going to litigate all of the affidavits they know to be false? Are they turning over those names? And, aren’t they obligated to validate ALL of the affidavits, as it is their evidence? In which case, for all of the Trumpites whose affidavits turn out to be false because they are lying to overturn the election results - don’t they have to turn those names over to prosecutors too?
Idiots are driving their bus and are too afraid of the idiot in the back to tell him those aren’t pancakes, it’s a cliff.
“ you can’t prove are not true. That’s not the same as being trustworthy.”
Could every booking agent for tv “news” shows please hang this over their desk and consult it every time they consider their invite list?
This is the clearest summation of Republican approach to “scandal” creation and talking points that I have yet seen
The Russians hacked CAPTCHA. Pass it on.
They used CAPTCHA to prove real people…oh dear, someone has never met a shipper 
Should we call 1-888-630-1776 about this?
No, gate has become a common american english suffix. you can’t stop it, but you are right about it being dumb.
Another piece of evidence supporting this prediction !