It doesn't appear they even bothered to include Melton's explicitly sexual sick ravings about Aaron's kids. They don't appear to be in it to win.
Irrationally, I find that that VERY frustrating. ... Were Aaron's feefees hurt by our snark against him? If so, fuck him. People do amazing work here with one clear purpose: to prove that Nick is scum. The editorializing about Aaron has been harsh but we've almost universally been on his side about the HRO issues. Spoon fed him, in fact.
It feels like Aaron never really engaged with this in a rational manner and has no idea what is all out there.
If he wasn't a total retard he would have archived and documented, with dates and timestamps, all of these incidents already.
He SHOULD know all the things out there
In fairness to Aaron, I held out some hope that the reason he left that stuff out might have been that he actually tried looking for original livestream timestamps for the
@Third World Aristocrat edit's clips and was frustrated to find that MAPton went out of his way to hide that evidence, which has been known to happen in at least one instance:
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Why did he feel the need to bury a livestream known to have contained this totally innocent clip?
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This got me curious enough to go dig through Filmot for various quotes from the other TWA segments and see if there's a pattern of deliberate spoliation in anticipation of litigation at worst or a pattern of his caving to Ashley's rumored late-2024 C&D efforts at best, but surprisingly MAPton has left all but four of the quoted segments up in livestreams on his channel, out and proud, with timestamps that Aaron could have easily found in minutes and used at the hearing:
Is there any way anyone who worked on the MAPton thread's early days could check any old notes, browser history, logs or metadata from clipping software used, etc. and figure out whatever the exact Youtube URLs originally were for the three segments highlighted in yellow? Filmot transcript searches no longer pull them up as of today, which would be consistent with MAPton having affirmatively taken them down as well, but it could also be consistent with them having been from members-only shows in the first instance, so the exact URL would be needed to rule out the latter.
Do you know if there is a time limit to when Aaron can add additional evidence for the hearing?
That could be exactly why his attorney's timely filing threw in this vague catchall:
Given the peculiarities of this case where all three parties are livestreaming regularly, it should be foreseeable to any of them that their public statements on Youtube up to and including the hearing date could come up at the hearing, especially when this catchall put them on notice that Youtube statements not specifically itemized elsewhere in the exhibit list still might end up being offered. The Barneswalker can stammer all he wants about the "surprise" but it would be up to the judge, who might afford some leeway given the catchall notice and the fact that these parties have been hanging themselves with public statements continuing day after day, and given their opponents' "ongoing investigation" that struggles to keep up in real-time. If any apparent spoliation is going on as addressed above, broadly discretionary sanctions available for that conduct could also be used to allow the petitioner to get some additional evidence in, or at least be afforded favorable inferences about what concealed evidence hypothetically could have contained.
That aside, being that the respondents are being assholes about waiting to file their exhibit list until the last minute which can prejudicially leave the petitioner's counsel almost no time to prepare, it's only fair that the judge might give him a little discretionary leeway with additional evidence he tries to bring in. Hell, even if Montgomery were to file a "Suppemental Exhibit List" with new timestamps as well as even older timestamps like the above and even the missing YT chat logs, and the supplemental just so happens to be squeezed in 5 minutes before the Barneswalker even gets around to filing his first list, the judge
might even let him get away with it.
I'm betting that's why Aaron's ex is going to be there. Exclusively for that part.
White women tears are a powerful weapon in courtroom.
Right now Aaron has weaksauce. A white woman could turn it into a witch's brew.
That could get even funnier when Nick kicks the Barneswalker under the table to make some retarded objection like hearsay (even though Ashley's recollections of MAPton's public statements are non-hearsay by definition since they're not offered for their truth and non-hearsay by rule since he's a party opponent), or superfluous weak 1L shit like the best evidence rule (even though asking for Ashley's recollections isn't submitting a "copy") or the rule of completeness (just because it's Nick's favorite) thinking that would dunk on Aaron's lawyer failing to timely notice and upload the above timestamps as exhibits, only to see it backfire and piss off the judge more. Plus when the objections coupled with cross-examination of MAPton give any impression that he denies or questions having made these statements, confronting him with quotes to impeach his credibility could be a roundabout way of getting them in anyway.
If he doesn't get them in
at all through those means or a supplemental filing, they're just not playing to win and it's almost tantamount to malpractice
unless there's some very specific reason to leave them out that we don't know about. It's hard to imagine what that could be, but
maybe it could be that Ashley's attorney's engagement with Melton in 2024 resulted in some sort of private agreement involving a release or NDA that makes her feel uncomfortable dredging up those seemingly "resolved" statements now (which would be silly given the privileges available to her in-court testimony), or maybe Ashley just plain doesn't want to cause these quotes to be signal-boosted more by what will be a widely disseminated public transcript, for fear that it would re-traumatize the child or be used against her by schoolyard bullies, etc. If that's the case then Aaron's leaving out the best available ammo is at least understandable, but if there exist such entrenched obstacles to playing to win, then perhaps the only winning move was not to play in the first place.
