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The announcement from President Trump’s campaign legal team from November 22 shocked many Sidney Powell supporters.
Many Trump and Powell supporters think that the US president’s case for election redress is sunk.
Here is what is happening. My post from Monday, November 23, offers background, including the Trump team’s announcement.
What Sidney Powell said
Sidney Powell issued her own statement afterwards. Her work is about ‘We the People’, as is L Lin Wood Jr’s.
Powell’s statement is as follows (emphasis in the original, those in purple mine):
I agree with the campaign’s statement that I am not part of the campaign’s legal team. I never signed a retainer agreement or sent the President or the campaign a bill for my expenses or fees.
My intent has always been to expose all the fraud I could find and let the chips fall where they may–whether it be upon Republicans or Democrats.
The evidence I’m compiling is overwhelming that this software tool was used to shift millions of votes from President Trump and other Republican candidates to Biden and other Democrat candidates. We are proceeding to prepare our lawsuit and plan to file it this week. It will be epic.
We will not allow this great Republic to be stolen by communists from without and within or our votes altered or manipulated by foreign actors in Hong Kong, Iran, Venezuela, or Serbia, for example, who have neither regard for human life nor the people who are the engine of this exceptional country.
#WeThePeople elected Donald Trump and other Republican candidates to restore the vision of America as a place of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
You may assist this effort by making a non tax-deductible contribution to www.DefendingTheRepublic.org. #KrakenOnSteroids”
Sidney Powell
What Trump’s campaign lawyers are working on and what Sidney Powell is perfecting are two different issues.
The Trump realm cannot easily enter the Powell realm because that would complicate things unnecessarily.
REX, whom I’ve quoted before, albeit not recently, has this analysis as to why there is a pincer movement going on:
This is also a useful analysis. I am unfamiliar with the author, but what he says makes sense:
Rush Limbaugh and Howie Carr want more action
On Monday, November 23, Rush Limbaugh was disappointed that nothing was happening yet from either Team Trump or Sidney Powell.
The Daily Caller carried portions of the transcript from his show (emphases mine):
“You call a gigantic press conference like that, one that lasts an hour. And you announce massive bombshells, then you better have some bombshells, there better be something at that press conference other than what we got,” he explained.
Limbaugh went on to say that a witness — even one whose identity was disguised — would have gone a long way toward bolstering the claims made by the president’s team.
“But you don’t — you can’t — I talked to so many people who were blown away by it, by the very nature of the press conference,” Limbaugh continued. “They promised blockbuster stuff, and then nothing happened. And that’s just, that’s not — well, it’s not good. If you’re going to promise blockbuster stuff like that, then there has — now, I understand. Look, I’m the one that’s been telling everybody, this stuff doesn’t happen at warp speed, light speed, the way cases are made for presentation in court. But if you’re going to do a press conference like that, with the promise of blockbusters, then — then there has to be something more than what that press conference delivered.”
Limbaugh concluded by saying that if the Trump team was going to make a case, it needed to be done quickly. “Time, of course is of the essence now, as it is speedily vanishing. So they’re going to have to act fast,” he said.
The Howie Carr Show, now a Newsmax programme, came on in the afternoon.
Howie couldn’t get hold of Sidney Powell for another interview, but he did speak with Boris Epshteyn and Joe diGenova. The next few paragraphs are my potted summary of what they told Howie.
Boris Epstein, part of Trump’s campaign legal team spoke to Howie. Epstein said ALL the states in question are still in play. He appeared during Howie’s Newsmax hour. (Howie wears a jacket and tie during that portion of his broadcast.)
Epstein said they are tracking things very closely and said he wanted to reassure Newsmax viewers that everything is in hand and progressing as planned.
Joe diGenova was on Howie Carr’s Newsmax hour after Boris Epshteyn. Joe diGenova said that there IS a two-pronged strategy in play. He said that Sidney Powell doesn’t have any problem pursuing the voting machines angle while Team Trump pursues what went on in the polling stations with no Republican observers admitted or placed so far away that they couldn’t see anything.
He confirmed what Boris Epshteyn said: ALL the questionable states were still in play that day (and this week).
Is President Trump worried about paying for recounts and/or audits in individual states? Based on 2016 and the four years of lefty turmoil that followed, his team were prepared and set money aside, especially as mail-in ballots were heavily promoted in all Democratic-controlled states or cities.
Trump knew his campaign would need to pay for recounts. That’s $3 – 7 million per state. They have that covered.
For those who think Trump should take Al Gore’s advice and concede, in 2000, when the hanging chad contest in Florida was in dispute, Gore didn’t concede until December.
But I digress.
Back to Howie Carr. As an organised crime reporter for the Boston Herald for many years, he knows how the legal system can be manipulated. On Monday’s show he asked whether Sidney Powell’s legal standing would be questioned. On whose behalf could she credibly make her case? (After all, L Lin Wood Jr’s case in Georgia got thrown out last week for lack of standing. He is going to appeal the decision.)
It turns out that Sidney Powell is a military lawyer. As today is still Thanksgiving Day, the ultimate American feast, here’s the retweet:
Now for the original tweet:
She has been representing Gen Michael Flynn.
She has also put the frighteners on certain people involved with the voting machines:
Patience required — more information emerging
An American Thinker article by Andrea Widburg puts the election legal fight into perspective:
Currently, I believe that this election was marked by epic fraud. You cannot convince me that Biden, who got five or six people to his rallies, as opposed to the 52,000 or so at Trump’s rallies in Pennsylvania, ended with more votes than Obama.
Nobody ever said proving this fraud would be easy (or, sadly, even possible). I’m treating its unfolding like an epic novel with a surprise ending …
So should the rest of us.
Imagine if we were on the legal team. We wouldn’t have time to sleep — or contemplate our annual turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
For Team Trump, there is much to challenge. RedState has an article with dizzying detail about Georgia alone.
There are also these items:
Yet another witness has come out in Michigan, describing the same scenario as in Georgia:
This is in addition to the legal challenges going on not only in these states but a handful of others which produced dubious results.
As for Sidney Powell, more information emerges for her, including this:
I really hope this isn’t true (a must see/read thread about Republicans and the voting machines).
Conclusion
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is:
Prayers continue for everyone involved in this historic battle for the future of the Great Republic.
So much news came out about the US election late last week that it was not possible to cover it all.
Below is a summary of more news.
Trump team press conference — November 19
On Thursday, November 19, lawyers representing the Trump campaign gave a two-hour press conference. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was also present.
Breitbart reported on the nine main points made:
Sidney Powell interviews — November 20 and 21
During the afternoon of Friday, November 20, Sidney Powell gave an interview to Howie Carr on his radio show. Here’s the podcast.
She said that this fraud was co-ordinated internationally (e.g. Canada, Lichtenstein, China) and that its extent is ‘absolutely terrifying’.
The Supreme Court will definitely want to hear this case as, from what she says, it involves foreign interference in a US election.
She also says there were ballots continually run through for Biden at Trump’s expense.
There was also fractional fraud going on. She said a vote for Trump counted 0.75 and one for Biden counted 1.25.
David J Harris Jr has more on the interview:
That evening, she gave an interview to the Washington Examiner‘s Larry O’Connor which you can listen to here.
She told him that ‘multiple people’ saw the fraud take place in real-time. In addition to the above, she said there were military votes, overwhelmingly for Trump, that were not counted.
She told O’Connor that she has testimony and affidavits to prove what occurred:
She hopes to file a formal complaint soon about election fraud that ‘will make jaws hit the floor’.
She says that the machines are so fraudulent that the upcoming run-off state election in Georgia should not take place. The machines can be programmed to get the desired result.
On Saturday, November 21, Powell appeared on Newsmax:
She said she plans to begin with Georgia, calling their current result ‘a total farce’:
Georgia is the first state I’m going to blow up and Mr Kemp and the Secretary of State need to go with it.
No doubt many saw the following statement dated September 22 from Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis regarding Sidney Powell:
It is unclear what that actually means.
However, she might be digging deeper, beyond the election result:
Or it might have to do with funding:
Two people in the know tweeted their views on Sunday.
Lin Wood said that he and Powell were fighting for ‘We The People’:
Powell’s client, Gen Michael Flynn, said she had been temporarily suspended from Twitter:
Developing …
The voting machines
In the video below, Michael Voris explains in layman’s terms how more votes went to Biden than to Trump on the evening of Tuesday, November 3:
The next video is also informative as it discusses what happened in the hotly contested Bush-Gore election of 2000, involving Florida’s hanging chads. Incredibly, those machines are still in use in some states. They also paved the way for the current machines from Dominion and Smartmatic, which, just to repeat, are completely programmable:
Interestingly, three days after the election Shaffer tweeted this about the Department of Homeland Security’s preparedness for the Democratic National Committee:
About these tweets, Gateway Pundit said on Saturday, November 21 (emphasis in the original):
These tweets caused an uproar on Twitter and liberals freaked out thinking they might have gotten caught in their attempt to steal the 2020 election. But the entire discussion was soon forgotten by the media and on Twitter.
Now with Sidney Powell’s claims the President won the election by a long shot, we wonder if what really Shaffer was hiding and referring to at the same time was the election fraud relate to the voting machines? Shaffer is an expert on the machines, maybe he was telling us they were all over it and not to worry?
This just a hunch but ultimately time will tell.
The ‘scandal of the century’
On November 19, a Louisiana newspaper published a report on the election. The Central City News calls it ‘the scandal of the century’:
With that in mind, no wonder President Trump has been tweeting frequently about it:
Regardless of ‘news’ reports, Pennsylvania is still in play with regard to lawsuits:
Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
On November 16, 2018, President Trump established the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA.
CISA is part of the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security. Wikipedia states (see above link) CISA’s purpose is to:
improve cybersecurity across all levels of government, coordinate cybersecurity programs with states, and improve the government’s cybersecurity protections against private and nation-state hackers.[3]
CISA has Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council.
Incredibly, the council has a number of entities which seem somewhat misplaced for the Trump administration. How they got there, who knows?
Bear Witness Central has a list of the council members and an in-depth article about the agency itself.
Excerpts follow, emphases mine.
CISA disputed anomalies with the 2020 election results:
… the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—part of the DHS—issued a statement on November 12, 2020 disputing the allegations and saying “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” However, what CISA failed to disclose is that Dominion Voting Systems is a member of CISA’s Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, one of two entities that authored the statement issued by CISA.
You couldn’t make this up:
It is incredible that in addition to Dominion Voting Systems, Smartmatic and SCYTL are also members of the Coordinating Council. In addition, Hart InterCivic electronic machines were used in many states with questionable lack of security, the anti-Trump Associated Press, and Big Tech companies Amazon and Microsoft.
The statement about the election also says:
There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. “While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too,” says the statement.
Meanwhile:
President Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell have denounced Dominion Voting Systems with the Smartmatic software from Communist Venezuela saying that this voting system has shifted millions of votes from Trump to Biden.
Fortunately, on November 17:
President Trump acted wisely when firing Christopher Krebs, the first Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Krebs’s second in command, Matt Travis. A third official, Bryan Ware, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, resigned.
Many insiders investigating the election think more needs to happen:
The President needs to tell the nation what the CIA did and fire its Director, Gina Haspel, as recommended by his lawyer Sidney Powell. The President needs also to tell the nation what Dominion Voting Systems did and its ties to the Communist Democratic Party. Then the President’s lawyers need to take his case to the Supreme Court. Failure to do that may eliminate his chances to return to the White House for a second term.
Lastly, the President also needs to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray for covering up the stolen election and the crimes of Joe Biden and his family. And his lack of cooperation with Congressional oversight committees.
The whole article is well worth reading.
That could be part of the reason why Trump replaced Secretary of Defense Mike Esper with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. At the end of last week, Miller announced that the US president’s orders will be carried out. The Special Operations civilian leadership will report directly to Miller instead of the ‘current bureaucratic channels’. This has been authorised by Congress, he said, and will put Special Operations Command on a ‘direct par’ with ‘the military services for the first time’ and will ‘immediately improve agility’.
The text preceding his video (see second tweet) is the author’s alone. Miller did not say those words:
Judge Jeanine Pirro sums up
Judge Jeanine did not let her audience down on Saturday, November 21.
She says that, for four years, we were led to believe that Russia was behind the 2016 election. Yet, this year, we discover that American votes were counted overseas. She adds that Trump’s legal team have 250 affidavits — sworn testimony of evidence — pointing to voter fraud. She explains the pause in vote counts on November 3:
She says that, while Democrats run free, those who filed affidavits will likely need witness protection for telling the truth. Ordinary citizens are being censored for tweeting about voter fraud. Judge Jeanine tried it out with a friend of hers. Jeanine’s was posted. Her friend’s was suppressed. Yet, the greatest issue remains — if proven, this manipulation of votes is unconstitutional:
Judge Jeanine interviews Lin Wood
Lin Wood explains to Judge Jeanine that many Georgia legislators did not know that the voting law had been changed in March, in time for the primaries:
This is why he filed his own lawsuit only recently.
He plans to file for an emergency hearing, if necessary a district court, after his case was dismissed on Friday. He has video and photographic evidence of voter fraud in Georgia.
More on that tomorrow.
Conclusion
Here’s the election investigation thus far, in a nutshell:
Please pray for everyone involved.
Those interested can show their support on December 12:
In the meantime, keep calm and carry on.
Yesterday’s post featured top lawyer L Lin Wood Jr’s work for President Trump’s campaign team to prove voter fraud in Georgia.
Today’s post features another top lawyer, Sidney Powell, who is also working on the voter fraud issue for Team Trump. She is well known to Trump supporters for her continuing tireless work representing Gen Michael Flynn.
Of Ms Powell, Lin Wood says:
I mentioned Sidney Powell earlier this week in my summary of Judge Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News programme of Saturday, November 14.
Like Lin Wood, Powell is a redoubtable Southerner.
Breitbart’s John Nolte wrote about both lawyers on Monday, November 16 — ‘Nolte: Sidney Powell and Lin Wood Promise There’s a Ton of Voter Fraud’.
Of Powell, Nolte writes (emphases mine):
Sidney Powell is no joke. She served as a federal prosecutor for ten years and earned a national reputation as the attorney who swooped in, convinced Ret. Gen. Michael Flynn to withdraw his guilty pleas, and successfully pressured the Justice Department to drop its charges. She was a stalwart and regular presence in exposing the Russia Collusion Hoax, and by my count, everything she said was going to happen did happen.
This is a serious woman. There’s no circus atmosphere around her. And she is pledging, as she did over the weekend on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures, that they have the goods, that they can prove there was enough voter fraud to overturn Joe Biden’s lead.
“There has been a massive and coordinated effort to steal this election from we the people of the United States of America, to delegitimize and destroy votes for Donald Trump, to manufacture votes for Joe Biden,” she said.
I posted the link to that interview in my Judge Jeanine post. Here it is. Breitbart‘s copy has been removed:
Sidney Powell has been examining voter fraud in several states, including the swing states so important to Trump’s results (see the Lou Dobbs video in this link).
On Friday, November 6, three days after the election, she told Lou Dobbs that the voting machines are partly to blame. The operation referred to below is one that US intelligence agencies use in foreign countries when they want to influence an election result. This operation was never intended to be used against the American people. And yet …
Sky News Australia were already on to this before the election — Saturday, October 31. Their seasoned commentator Alan Jones is fearless:
It is hard to fathom how much the Democrats have done and are doing:
On Monday, November 9, Powell tweeted about Georgia’s results, which are currently being recounted:
On Wednesday, November 11, she picked up on a detailed thread from TheDonald.win alleging voter fraud in several instances:
On Friday, November 13, she told Lou Dobbs that she will soon be ready to ‘release the Kraken’. I can hardly wait:
Highlights of the interview follow:
On Sunday, November 15, Powell gave an interview to Maria Bartiromo. She said that information has been coming in so quickly and in such volumes that she is struggling to ‘process it all’. She explained the connection between the voting machines and a member of Joe Biden’s transition team, a retired Navy admiral:
Hmm:
This is how a machine-driven voting anomaly might have worked on Tuesday, November 3:
Real Clear Politics has more on Powell’s interview with Bartiromo. Powell said that CIA director Gina Haspel should be dismissed:
President Trump’s lawyer Sidney Powell told FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo that CIA director Gina Haspel should be fired for ignoring warnings about the Dominion voter software ahead of the 2020 election.
“It should never have been installed anywhere and we are going to show the public exactly how rotten the entire state is,” she said.
“Why Gina Haspel is still there in the CIA is beyond my comprehension,” Powell said. “She should be fired immediately.”
Wow.
What exactly, though, does ‘releasing the Kraken’ mean in terms of the election?
Clarice Feldman, a regular contributor to American Thinker, reminds us that, on September 12, 2018, Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) prohibiting foreign influence in American elections:
… it cannot be doubted that two years ago he anticipated foreign interference with our election process and issued in an Executive Order a means to investigate and punish any person, group or country which engaged in such international election fraud.
It’s a lengthy order and I’ll try to note some of the most significant portions of it. It tasks the DNI with preparing a report of the investigative results of such interference no later than 45 days after an election …
Clarice Feldman goes on to elaborate on the contents of the EO. She says:
Did this Executive Order set in place a means to investigate computer manipulation overseas to affect our election and did such an investigation reveal that this occurred and significantly affected the election in several key states? If so, the reported results must be amended substantially to discard the false count, or other measures taken to prevent certifying fraudulent results dependent on the manipulated reported final tallies. That is the issue I think Powell and Wood are hinting at.
To be sure, there is a great deal of evidence of regular old-timey ballot stuffing and standard election fraud, but computer and internet generated mischief has the potential to far exceed that and seems to Trump’s lawyers in fact to have done so.
Feldman then describes what has happened with Georgia’s results and discusses the voting machines involved.
She concludes:
At the Department of Defense, General Michael Flynn’s aide Ezra Cohen-Watnick has been made acting undersecretary of intelligence. Previously he was the U.S. strategic policy coordinator for all intelligence programs, “including, among other things, covert action, human intelligence, electronic surveillance.”
Are Trump’s lawyers onto something big or not? We’ll have to see …
Sidney Powell went so far as to say:
On November 17, Newsmax reported that Michigan’s Wayne County refused to verify election results, which could send the decision to their state’s legislature. Powell told Newsmax presenter Greg Kelly that this was good news. She had more to say about the voting machines, which allegedly have a ‘back door’ for manipulation — ‘a feature’ not a bug. She says she has it on good authority (a former Venezuelan military officer) that it worked successfully for Venezuela’s Chavez and Maduro. The presenter said it’s no wonder Biden didn’t campaign. She is still in the process of gathering more information and hearing from more people every day who want the fraud revealed and stopped:
Jan Jekielek from The Epoch Times has more on that story:
The next six tweets are particularly important:
Powell told Newsmax’s Greg Kelly (see video above) that Trump received 80m votes in a clear landslide. The voter fraud, she says, is ‘very serious’ and involves ‘trillions of dollars of worldwide wealth’.
Powell is still putting together evidence and testimony, but millions await her ‘release of the Kraken’ with great anticipation.
President Trump praised Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Joseph diGenova and all the other lawyers working for his campaign:
Remember:
Also:
On Thursday, November 19, Sidney Powell participated in a press conference with former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and attorney Jenna Ellis, who also helped to defend John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church against lockdown rules in Los Angeles County.
Howie Carr’s audio from November 19 has excerpts of what Powell said. She sounded disgusted and saddened, in equal measure. She said that she will continue to pursue the voter fraud.
When you hear her allegations in that audio, it is difficult to comprehend just how appalling it must be to discover voter fraud on such a massive scale.
I wish Sidney Powell all the very best as she pursues the truth not only for President Trump but also America, the Great Republic.
Stay tuned for more developments in the days to come.
Judge Jeanine Pirro had to take a Saturday off because Fox News did not want her to discuss voter fraud in the US election:
Fortunately, she was back on November 14 to examine the topic.
Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio pointed out that Republicans have unseated some Democrats down ballot. New Republican winners are women, minorities and veterans. He also said that with so many Republicans winning those down ballot races, it is illogical that a GOP presidential incumbent would lose the election:
The Republican leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy from California, echoed what Jim Jordan said but added that it is essential that every legal vote be counted in this election:
Gen Michael Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell talked about the voting machines and software used in the election, casting doubt on both:
Georgia congressman Doug Collins joined Judge Jeanine to discuss voting irregularities in that state and the lawsuits filed there:
Finally, Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s first campaign manager in 2016, told Judge Jeanine how he was unable to watch Philadelphia’s vote count even with a court order allowing him to do so. He was allowed in to the city’s massive convention centre only after the votes were counted:
Corey Lewandowski also caught coronavirus and had to return home to New Hampshire. He told Judge Jeanine that he had very few symptoms and has now recovered.
Meanwhile, the (re)counts continue.
