The left continues its growing trend of destroying the right through lawfare; prosecution on the criminal side and sanctions and defamation lawsuits on the civil side. Most people know the lawfare is groundless, but with the left now dominating the legal system, including the judiciary and state bars, it’s become easy to destroy the lives of vocal conservatives, holding them up as warning examples to any other principled conservative who next dares to go against the fascism of progressivism. Anyone who bravely defends those targeted with defamation suits risks being sued for defamation themselves. It’s a perfect way to chill conservative speech, especially attempts to expose illegal election activity.

The latest victim is Rudy Giuliani, who lost a $148 million defamation case, forcing him to file for bankruptcy. He was sued over telling a Missouri House committee that a video posted on The Gateway Pundit “shows demonstrably the theft of about 40,000 ballots right in front of your eyes.” The site accused Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a mother and daughter who counted ballots at State Farm Arena, of producing and counting ballots from suitcases.

The video showed election workers grabbing rectangular black boxes that looked like suitcases from underneath tables — they even had pull-up handles to haul them around like suitcases — after workers had told poll watchers to go home for the evening due to a burst pipe. Election officials claimed later that they did not count ballots from the containers, but merely put ballots away in them which was........

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