Kari Lake Admits She Lied

Former KSAZ (Phoenix) Anchor, failed candidate and conspiracy spreader Kari Lake confesses that she knowingly lied about Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, but is not a big deal.

Lake claimed it doesn't matter if she lied because she has a First Amendment right to do so. Richer is suing Lake for defaming him as part of her ongoing efforts to convince people she won the 2022 governor's race.

In a court filing, Lake's lawyers said Richer's suit should be dismissed because he works for the "state" and he only brought the suit to “deter, retaliate against, and prevent Defendants’ lawful exercise of their free speech rights on the core public issue of election integrity.”

"An Anti-SLAPP motion is not an attempt to adjudicate falsity, but to avoid the burden of having to justify statements concerning core political speech,” Lake said in the filing.

Raw Story writes SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation and are generally lawsuits used to protect speech, but The Mirror spoke to a Phoenix lawyer who said Lake is stretching the purpose of the spirit of the law.

“I think it’s a stretch to say that a public officer standing up for his or her reputation is doing so to stop someone from engaging in political speech,” lawyer Craig Morgan said.

“You could arguably read this as a desperate maneuver,” Morgan said.