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.
The case revolved around accusations made by Gregory Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes, two GOP poll watchers, claiming that Savage, the supervisor and chief custodian of the Delaware County Voting Machine Warehouse, manipulated vote tabulation in favor of Joe Biden.
The lawsuit points to numerous public statements made by the defendants in the wake of the election that were allegedly designed to sow discord and confusion about the results, including a Nov. 25 hearing before Pennsylvania Senate Republicans in Gettysburg and a press conference in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 1. The suit also references an affidavit from Stenstrom in one of several lawsuits filed by Trump seeking to overturn election results and in statements he made on Fox News’ “Hannity” program on Dec. 3, 2020.
Savage says that in each of these forums, the defendants sought to disparage him by claiming he illegally “stuffed” or padded ballot totals in favor of Biden by uploading 50,000 fraudulent votes to machines via a USB “v-card” device.
Stenstrom alleged that he had personally witnessed Savage uploading these sticks 24 times as votes were counted and that 47 or 64 of these USB cards had later gone missing.
Defendants including Trump and Giuliani also reiterated several times that the election was a “fraud,” “sham” and “disgrace,” while 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,” the suit says.
The suit acknowledges Savage was not typically referred to by name in these statements, but as the “voting machine warehouse supervisor.” Because Savage was the only one of those in the county, however, the suit claims this effectively amounted to the same thing.
This week, James Savage and his attorney, J. Conor Corcoran, have withdrawn their complaints just before the scheduled hearing, citing a motion for summary judgment in favor of Stenstrom and Hoopes based on the truth as a complete defense.
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