Introductory Post: Lying liar gets sued
Recently, I have been thinking on and off about doing a bit more with “political” writing. In the process, I decided that the best way to do it was to start a new blog. In the meantime, I was doing my own research on a very interesting story. In the last few weeks, an individual named Eric Coomer filed a lawsuit against a number of parties alleging that he had been targeted for death threats based on an unsubstantiated accusation that he had been heard claiming that he made “sure” that Donald Trump lost the election, as well as certain social media posts critical of the president. What interested me most is that this story in turn was based solely on a statement by one person who claimed to have infiltrated an “antifa” conference call without recording the exchange, preserving a record of how he was invited to take part, or reporting the matter to anyone until after the election. Since the lawsuit itself is already on record, I will instead dive right in to the alleged phone ca...