Onetime gubernatorial dopeful Kari Lake is having a bad week. She’s apparently stopped jumping out of giant cakes, KFC buckets, and 3D-printed silicone Ivanka costumes at Mar-a-Lago long enough to get her lawyers fined over a lawsuit she filed based on Donald Trump’s Big Obnoxious Lie. On Friday, a federal judge ordered attorneys for Lake, a crybaby also-ran in the 2022 Arizona governor’s race, to fork over $122,000 to Arizona’s Maricopa County over a suit they’d filed demanding that vote-counting machines not be used to tabulate the results of the 2022 midterm elections.
Seems that Lake was listening to top election conspiracist Mike Lindell, and the Oort cloud of lightly fermented deli meats that circles Pillow Man like Pig-Pen’s trademark dust nebula apparently overwhelmed her sense of reason. With Lindell’s backing, Lake and Mark Finchem, a failed 2022 Arizona secretary of state candidate, filed suit in April of last year, prior to the midterm elections.
The only problem? They showed up without evidence, apparently mistaking a U.S. courtroom for Sean Hannity’s pool cabana. So in December, U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi ordered that the attorneys, including sometime Jeff Epstein and Trump apologist Alan Dershowitz, be fined in order to forestall “similarly baseless suits in the future.” And now, the hammer has come down.
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