“By no means ask a query to which you don’t already know the reply” is an age-old unwritten ‘legislation’ in courtroom proceedings. The reason is is it might lead to sudden hurt to at least one’s case. This grew to become clear throughout yesterday’s Washington D.C.-based disbarment listening to of former Trump DOJ official and co-RICO defendant in Fulton County, Jeffrey Clark.
Throughout cross-examination of Garland Favorito of VoterGA.org, counsel for the Workplace of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) requested Favorito:
“So, within the issues that you just’ve talked about immediately, are you able to record for us those which you consider are proof of precise fraud having been dedicated?”
Favorito responded by firing off quite a few findings all through his group’s years-long investigation:
- The unique poll photographs in “about 70 counties” had been destroyed despite the legal guidelines requiring they be maintained
- Evaluation of Fulton County poll photographs had been electronically altered earlier than the certification in 2020, which has nonetheless not been correctly investigated
- There have been a minimum of 8,000 double-copied ballots in Chatham County
- There have been 8,000 double-scanned ballots statewide (Favorito admits this might not be fraud, however somewhat could possibly be errors or a combination of fraud and errors, however that “we have now no manner of understanding till that’s investigated)
Counsel for the ODC interrupts Favorito at that time and asks particularly for examples of fraud that’s “within the public file” and “not one thing [he has] investigated and uncovered.”
Favorito responds that there have been mail-in ballots that weren’t folded from being mailed nor had been they printed on the right paper inventory. They had been marked with toner (from a printer) somewhat than a writing instrument, in accordance with senior poll-managers’ sworn affidavits being utilized in court docket instances “proper now”. Favorito factors out that these had been recognized not simply earlier than January third, however earlier than December third (2020).
When ODC counsel asks, “There have been 100 of these ballots, appropriate?”
Favorito responds:
“Nobody is aware of what number of ballots [there] had been as a result of we’ve spend three years in court docket making an attempt to get these ballots [as] public file. We truly appealed our case to the Georgia Supreme Courtroom. We received the case within the Georgia Supreme Courtroom. They declared we had standing all alongside and the Superior Courtroom had made an entire error. That case went again down. He then handed it off to a different choose who we believed was too neutral. We filed a movement to recuse. So after three years, we have now nonetheless not gotten to see the ballots that there have been six sworn affidavits for that had been counterfeit. That’s not the suitable strategy to examine. And, the Secretary of State’s Workplace filed an amicus transient towards us to attempt to forestall us from trying on the ballots.
What sort of a Secretary of State would have completed that?”
That is the place the proverbial mic-drop happens. Keep in mind, “By no means ask a query to which you don’t already know the reply.” In a second of bewilderment maybe, to the query of “What sort of Secretary of State would have completed that”, ODC counsel responds:
“A corrupt one, I suppose.”
Favorito instantly fires again, “That’s your opinion, not mine.”
ODC counsel shouldn’t be arguing on behalf of anybody from the State of Georgia, Fulton County, or any election entity. He’s arguing strictly for the Workplace of Disciplinary Counsel. Nevertheless, the place of his argument to disbar Jeffrey Clark ought to a minimum of be considerably congruent with the argument that there was no wide-spread fraud within the 2020 election, which, concerning Georgia, has been incorrectly proclaimed by Georgia officers since 2020.
To state “a corrupt one, I suppose” regarding the Chief Election Officer of the State of Georgia when offered not solely with proof of great election points which have gone extensively uninvestigated since 2020, but in addition with obfuscation within the judicial course of to permit public transparency, is a detrimental blow not solely to the disbarment case, but in addition to the claims made by the Georgia Secretary of State concerning the 2020 election.
Whereas the lion’s share of election claims introduced concerning the 2020 election had been dismissed on procedural grounds previous to an evidentiary listening to, one thing most Mockingbird Media retailers neglect to acknowledge, the felony instances introduced forth in locations similar to Fulton County, and in disbarment hearings similar to John Eastman’s in California, and now Jeffrey Clark’s in D.C., have allowed evidentiary claims to be heard on the file and below oath.
Garland Favorito and VoterGA.org’s 2020 poll inspection case was remanded again to the Superior Courtroom 468 days in the past and remains to be ready to be heard.
The felony RICO case in Fulton County is shaping as much as be a blockbuster occasion.
This may be the best cross-examination failure of all time! The ODC prosecutor is difficult Garland Favorito to record examples of precise fraud and never simply potential fraud. Rule #1 – don’t ask a query you don’t know the reply to. Garland begins to undergo all of the… pic.twitter.com/nzPZc6fkzF
— Declare Your Poll (@DeclareUrBallot) April 2, 2024
