Greg Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes, alongside former President Donald Trump, emerged victorious in a high-profile defamation case in Pennsylvania. The lawsuit, known as “SAVAGE VS TRUMP ETAL,” alleged malicious and defamatory statements against the Plaintiff, James Savage, following the 2020 Presidential election. To my knowledge, it is the only “election” case to get to the discovery stage. All other cases were dismissed without prejudice based on procedural issues like standing to bring a case.
Discovery is the formal process of exchanging information between the parties about the witnesses and evidence they will present at trial. Discovery enables the parties to know before the trial begins what evidence may be presented. It’s designed to prevent “trial by ambush,” where one side doesn’t learn of the other side’s evidence or witnesses until the trial, when there is no time to obtain answering evidence.
Discovery can consist of depositions as well as the subpoenaing of records, documents, etc. for inspection by the opposing side.
After the 2020 election there were numerous stories about strange things that happened in Pennsylvania. Defendants including Trump and Giuliani reiterated several times that the election was a “fraud,” “sham” and “disgrace.” Hoopes referred to Savage in Gettysburg as a “Bernie Sanders delegate who was also solely responsible for every scanner, machine, v-card, and all machines with absolutely zero experience in this area.”
Stenstrom and Hoopes, who were using truth as their defense, submitted a large volume of filings (thousands of pages of documents, emails, texts, videos, audios, affidavits, etc.) with the Court in preparation for this week’s hearing, and also a discovery hearing that was scheduled for 25MAR2024. The truth was beating Savage and his attorney to a pulp.
This is the first instance where hard physical evidence of election fraud was allowed into the record and where the truth defense regarding election fraud was successfully utilized.
Stenstrom and Hoopes reported:
For the record, Leah Hoopes and Gregory Stenstrom were offered a settlement on January 10th, 2024, to drop the complaint against them, and leave President Trump behind for trial after his stay for criminal hearings were resolved, and leave Mayor Giuliani behind for monetary damages for millions of dollars.
We said “no – one goes, we all go – and we will be happy to keep kicking your asses at trial.” FYI, the same deranged expert witness that was the star witness in E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump was scheduled for our trial, and we were well prepared to handle that.
Reading between the lines: It appears to this observer that this is another example those engaged in acts that may be illegal deciding to be stupid and enrich themselves. Did this individual believe that he could collect some “easy” money by filing a defamation suit? Carroll won so why not pad his own pockets as well? Instead, evidence actually got into the record about the potential election fraud in Pennsylvania. I wonder what Obama, et al, think about that.