Screenshot – Stephen Richer on X
Maricopa County Recorder and Kari Lake-hating RINO Stephen Richer, the top election official in Maricopa County, has reinstated his X/Twitter page after jeopardizing his sham defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake.
This comes after Stephen Richer was accused of destroying evidence in his ongoing assault on Kari Lake’s First Amendment right to criticize elected officials by suing her for defamation.
Lake’s husband, who is a defendant in the lawsuit, filed a Motion to Dismiss as a sanction for Richer’s destruction of evidence, violation of a court order requiring him to produce calculations of damages, and failure to disclose the existence of a taxpayer-funded “data mining operation.” This data mining operation was used by his office to compile news stories and social media about him, seemingly for campaign purposes and evidence in the lawsuit.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Richer deleted his X page last week in the middle of Maricopa County’s vote-counting process, which he oversees for mail-in ballots as County Recorder.
As of this afternoon, it is estimated that 2,100 early ballots remain to be processed in Maricopa County, and 7,100 ballots have yet to be counted in Maricopa. His decision to suspend his X page, where he has historically provided regular updates on elections, vote counting, and results, sparked a major online fuss.
Just after Richer took his account down from the internet, restricting anybody from seeing his previous posts or communicating with him on the platform, The Gateway Pundit obtained excerpts from a deposition transcript in his defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake. In the deposition, it was revealed that Richer previously contemplated running for Senate to “make life hell for Kari Lake” and admitted that he is “anti-MAGA” in private text messages.
BREAKING: Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s Deposition Transcript Shows Desire to “Make Life Hell for Kari Lake,” Calls Himself “Anti-MAGA” in Text Messages – Now He’s Counting The Votes in Lake’s Senate Race!
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