Sorry, every post since the election attracts the howling mob and it's a bit hard to keep track of which things I've responded to and which I haven't.
I assume that you are talking about affadavits being evidence. Yes, they are. But it's more complicated than just that. Have you actually
read any of those affidavits?
Just because an affidavit is evidence doesn't mean that it's evidence for a specific claim. So when Generic Trump Lawyer #5 says that they have 10982732198037 affidavits, that doesn't necessarily mean that any of those affidavits are actually relevant to or evidence for the specific claims that they are making. They're evidence of
something but that something might be trivial or irrelevant.
For example,
here's an affidavit that's gotten a lot of news lately, which is about Dominion voting software, etc.
This guy is an election official in Texas writing an affidavit about Michigan based on what he has read in the news. He then takes his understanding of what he read in the news (which was incorrect) and expands that to apply it to the entire state of Michigan.
It goes on and on that way. Again, he has read some stuff on the internet (which is wrong) and then he is swearing an affidavit on his interpretation of the thing that he read. And Trump's lawyers, on national television, use his affidavits to make claims that are based upon this affidavit. But they have not in any way validated the information in this affidavit, they are taking everything in it at face value and reporting it to the American people at face value. And, in turn, certain people on this forum (including some in this thread) take it at face value and build a religion around it.
In the abstract, are affidavits evidence? Yes.
Is
this affidavit evidence
for the claim that the election was stolen? No.
Are
any of the affidavits in Sidney Powell's pile evidence which supports of the things that she says they are evidence of? Maybe, but so far it seems vanishingly unlikely.
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