Kari Lake claims email evidence in defamation case was purged. Her story doesn’t add up.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake has claimed that all of the emails that might contain evidence pertinent to a defamation suit filed against her have been wiped, so she can’t share them to be used as evidence.

During an Oct. 21 hearing, Tyler Swensen, one of Lake’s attorneys, told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner that the campaign associated with the email accounts that might contain evidence was dissolved almost a year before Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer filed his defamation lawsuit.