Aww. Be still, our breaking hearts. He was trying to get more money with a petition to the judges to hear his Anti-SLAPP lawsuit. Being the originator of the plot to seize voting machines after Trump lost does not exactly endear him to anyone. This is giving you a blatant hint, but there is so much about this guy that it’s hard *not* to do so. He has quite a list of actions, and none of them will make us like him in the slightest. The original lawsuit was blatant, but didn’t give him enough. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Respect to Raw Story:
A former Trump White House aide who once brokered a plot to seize voting machines, went on a racist Telegram rant, and built a nonprofit around publishing Biden family dirt just struck out at the Supreme Court. On Monday, the justices declined without dissent to hear a petition from Garrett Ziegler — ending his bid to squeeze more protection out of California’s anti-SLAPP statute. The case traces back to a 2023 lawsuit alleging Ziegler had impersonated a Democratic fundraiser to extract information about Hunter Biden’s laptop, then published his target’s personal contact details.
Holy cow, but this guy was slimy. He testified before the J6 committee and pleaded the Fifth Amendment approximately 100 times. Given that he came up with the idea of seizing voting machines, we can see why. Those shenanigans were doomed from the start. They thought it would be easy. Well, it was easy enough for them to be caught. They figured people weren’t looking too closely, and they could pull it off, except they didn’t.
Ziegler responded with an anti-SLAPP motion — a legal tool designed to protect defendants from suits that target free speech activity. He lost most of it. The dispute began with a 2022 phone call. The plaintiff picked up believing he was speaking with a Democratic operative. After the call, he received an image of a squid, the phrase “NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH,” and the words “Marco Polo.” The man on the other end of that call was Kevin Morris — the entertainment lawyer once dubbed Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother.” A California court ultimately ordered Morris to pay Ziegler $50,000, but Ziegler’s attorney argued the anti-SLAPP statute hadn’t gone nearly far enough.
Heh. It hadn’t gone far enough with the money. That seems rather obvious, especially with going to SCOTUS. Well, they slammed that door firmly in Zeigler’s face. This may actually be considered frivolous. Hmm. It really doesn’t matter because the justices said no, and that’s all the information he was going to get. No one dissented. His attorney was unhappy. Awww (again). This guy didn’t deserve what he got.
Ziegler brokered the now-infamous Dec. 18, 2020, Oval Office meeting between Trump and figures including Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, designed to convince the president to seize voting machines and overturn the election. After testifying before the January 6 committee in 2022, he erupted in a nearly 30-minute Telegram rant, calling the panel “a Bolshevistic, anti-white campaign” and attacking former colleagues Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin. Raw Story noted he also reshares content from white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes.
There is nothing to like about this guy. No wonder he could convince Trump. They’re exactly alike. They both love to attack others. They both like shady deals. Look at all of Trump’s blatant grifts while he’s still president. Look at Ziegler trying (and failing, fortunately) to get more money, his version of a grift. In the end, they both have legal cases that flopped.
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