By Caitlin Sievers | AZ Mirror
After months of stalling, a judge has for a second time ordered Kari Lake and her husband to hand over documents to Stephen Richer that pertain to her defamatory statements about the Maricopa County Recorder.
Lake, the Republican nominee for U.S. senator from Arizona in the November election, shared lies about Richer on podcasts and social media after she lost the 2022 election for Arizona governor and labored to blame that loss on nonexistent election fraud. In her ongoing attempt to get the courts to overturn her loss in that election, Lake failed to prove that any fraud took place, and the attorneys who represented her were disciplined for lying to the court.
She claimed that Richer, who is also a Republican, “intentionally” made changes to ballot printers that resulted in Election Day printing problems because he wanted “to sabotage the 2022 general election.” And, Lake repeatedly asserted, Richer was responsible for 300,000 “illegal, invalid, phony or bogus” early ballots being counted in Maricopa County.
