09-20-2022, 02:48 PM
You may remember Cathy Latham; former Republican party executive committee member, fake Trump elector in Georgia, and general looney who is in deep trouble for letting fellow Trump minions into the Coffee County elections office to spend a day messing with the voting machines and copying data from them:
In court, she testified that, heck,
One problem: more video.
In court, she testified that, heck,
…she briefly stopped by the office in Coffee County that afternoon. She said she stayed in the foyer and spoke with a junior official about an unrelated matter at the front desk.
“I didn’t go into the office,” Latham said, according to a transcript of her deposition filed in court. She said she had seen in passing a pro-Trump businessman who was working with the experts. She said they chatted for “five minutes at most” — she could not remember the topic — and she left soon after for an early dinner with her husband.
One problem: more video.
Surveillance video footage reviewed by The Washington Post shows that Latham visited the elections office twice that day, staying for more than four hours in total. She greeted the businessman, Scott Hall, when he arrived and led him into a back area to meet the experts and local officials, the video shows. Over the course of the day, it shows, she moved in and out of an area where the experts from thedata forensics firm, SullivanStrickler, were working, a part of that building that was not visible to the surveillance camera.
Basically, she did everything except take a selfie with them.
She took a selfie with one of the forensics experts before heading out at 6:19 p.m.
Oops. My bad.
Say her lawyers:
“Failing to accurately remember the details of events from almost two years ago is not lying.”
..but obviously BS’ing in a sworn court deposition? Well, opinions differ, y’know?
Her attorneys Robert D. Cheeley and Holly A. Pierson wrote in a court filing last week that the alleged security breach was “actually less of a breach or criminal undertaking and more of a permissible exercise of the County Elections Board’s authority.”
They wrote that “the parties involved plainly believed that they had the authority to authorize it* and the authority to do it, and that belief seems to be at least reasonable and likely accurate, which negates any possible criminal intent.”
See? In Trumpworld, if you believe you have the authority to shoot someone on 5th avenue, that negates any possible criminal intent.
But you should probably lie about it repeatedly in court, just in case.
:RollingEyesSmiley5:
* PS- Although Latham identified herself as an “election official” to the Trumpie crew,
A lawyer for Latham said something must have been taken out of context or misunderstood because Latham has never been a Coffee County election official and did not hold herself out as one.
She just, y’know, lets Trumpie hackers into the county elections office and stays for hours while they mess around with voting machines, like any deeply concerned citizen would do.
And then totally forgets she did any such thing.