Yesterday I saw a post - I can’t remember which thread and I can’t find it- about Rudy’s deposition in the defamation case brought by Dr. Eric Coomer and Dominion voting.
The general reporting is that ……surprise surprise…….Rudy had no evidence for anything he said other than random internet bullshit and he brushed off anything that debunked the bullshit as propaganda by Trump haters.
I couldn’t resist .
I found the entire deposition and stayed up late into the night reading. I don’t know where to start.
The first several pages where nothing more than an attempt to clarify who Rudy and all the lawyers were working for….Trump? His campaign? After dancing around it for several pages, the lawyer for Dominion initiated this exchange
Q: Were you ever paid to represent the campaign?
A: I was not. I was reimbursed for my expenses
Q: Why were you representing the campaign for no compensation?
A: The President - The President ordered me to do it.
(I really wish the next question was - Are you fucking kidding me, do you know the President can’t demand that you work for him for free?”, but it wasn’t.)
Q. When did that occur?
A: The election was January 3rd. If you don’t mind, I’ll recreate. I wish I had video of this moment. The election was January 3rd. That would’ve been on the 4th or 5th.
Q: I think you misspoke.(I bet the guy was trying really hard not to laugh his ass off.)
A: Did I say January? November 3rd. November 4th or 5th we’re talking about. Either on the 4th or 5th, the President said in the Oval Office, I want you to go over and take over, take over the campaign, tell them you’re in charge.
At this point Rudy’s lawyer desperately tried to shut him up, reminding him that his communications with Trump were privileged. But Rudy then revealed he had nothing privileged to reveal because he had absolutely no idea what Trump meant or exactly what he had put Rudy in charge of.
At some point they basically gave up on trying to figure out who everyone was working for and got to the defamation, which basically came down to Rudy being 100% sure Dr. Eric Coomer had tried to rig the Election because someone had shown him stuff that had allegedly been deleted from his Facebook page,stuff that proved …….he hated Trump. He must be guilty, because he really hated Trump.
Here’s some fun quotes from the depo.
Here’s a quote that explains how Rudy knows Coomer fixed the election because he hated Trump
[Coomer] made a couple of other derogatory comments about Trump that I can’t recall right now, and he said that he had also found or either he or someone else had been able to recapture, I don’t know if it was all but a good deal of the social postings that had been taken down and he had copies, paper copies of them and he showed them to me and I read through them very very quickly and they sort of fit into a category of social postings of people.
After another similar gish-gallop of hearsay, the lawyer asked him to clarify who the pronouns were referring to and Rudy replied.
Pronouns are very controversial now
(on adjudication, which Rudy doesn’t understand) That’s an absurd number. You have 10 people walk in, they think they’ve voted for Bush…sorry, wrong case
On voting machines
We’ve got what we’d call in New York a fugazi machine. Fugazi machine means a crooked machine
(On the report by Michigan Republicans debunking election fraud)
Did the Holy Ghost come in and move the votes around or did someone change the machine? The second seems more likely.
On Eric Coomer and the lawsuit
If you go to Kill Chain you can see them do it in broad daylight and they bring out the whole history so I don’t understand what he’s complaining about.
On the alleged conference call that Coomer had with “Antifa”. At this point Rudy has confirmed that he didn’t hear the alleged recording of the call and didn’t interview witnesses. The lawyer just asked if he’d reviewed any notes of call.
They showed me something about the call, some pieces of paper, so I can’t tell you if they did or didn’t.
On the Trump campaign memo that debunked Rudy’s wilder theories
This was done for Dominion to cover its ass. Nobody ever bothered to give it to me because they knew I would go crazy if I saw it.
And my favorite - here’s one of his excuses for not researching his claims.
I’m constrained by time. Constrained by time, I don’t mean the press conference time. I mean the realistic time.
I’ve failed to capture the total insanity, the questions he answered with long rants about Hunter Biden and The Washington Post votes being switched in Spain and/or Germany and Constitutional controversies in the 1800’s . The short quotes aren’t cutting it and I can’t type out the long ramble rants. Seriously, if you have time, read it. It’s insane. Literally.