[Re: “GRA’s Signs of Bias in a News Outlet.”]
By Anonymous
N.S.: Immediately following The Big Steal, President Trump and Mayor Giuliani got Sidney Powell to enlist to be their legal brains. Just a few weeks later, they ditched her.
She had accused Dominion Voting Systems with altering votes, and Dominion had responded by suing her.
Where did Powell get the idea to make such accusations? No doubt, from Trump and Giuliani. But they ditched her, because they were (with good reason) afraid of themselves being legally targeted by Dominion. And thanks to attorney-client privilege, she can't even blow the whistle on them.
The following hit piece from the daily beast, which is an expert example of what these days is called "gaslighting," has the President’s fingerprints all over it.
“Kraken Queen” Sidney Powell is Now on Trump’s “No-Go List” BLACKLISTED “Her problems right now do not need to be the [former] president’s problems,” one knowledgeable source said.
Being Sidney Powell is harder than it used to be.
Once, she was a key player in Donald Trump’s inner circle. These days, she might have trouble just getting in the front door.
The “Kraken” queen long ago removed herself from acceptability among the more respectable GOP circles with a constant stream of bizarre election conspiracy theories. But knowledgeable sources tell the daily beast that the places she’s unwelcome now include Trump properties, where advisers look to keep the former president away from her.
Her unrelenting antics have put her on an informal list of people to intercept should they ever appear, or if they even just try to call the 45th U.S. president.
Powell is facing a number of legal headaches. She and her nonprofit, Defending the Republic, are both named as defendants in a billion dollar defamation suit by Dominion Voting Systems. She’s been sanctioned by a Michigan judge for filing a frivolous election suit in the state, faces calls for her disbarment in Texas, and her nonprofit is still waiting to find out its punishment for running afoul of Florida’s rules for charity fundraising. Despite the mounting challenges, Powell was still posting new election conspiracy theories to her nonprofit’s website as recently as Wednesday.
MAGAworld and the conservative movement have shown themselves to be disturbingly fertile ground for election-related conspiracy theories and lies, particularly those used to crack down on voting rights. [N.S.: Absolute garbage.] And yet Powell’s behavior and some of her debunked [N.S.: Ditto.] claims have—nearly a full year after Election Night 2020—continued to alienate her from other leading Trump loyalists, MAGA celebs, and the broader movement.
[N.S.: Like what? I don’t see any examples.]
And yet, Powell’s conduct has somehow proven just a little too embarrassing for many of them—including, it appears, Donald Trump himself.
Two lawyers who currently work for Trump or in the former president’s inner orbit say they want absolutely nothing to do with her and have cautioned others in MAGAland to do the same. One said they’d recently deleted her phone number.
Two other people familiar with the matter said that ever since he left office in January, certain advisers and longtime associates to Trump have kept an informal shortlist of people who they should look out for, including at Trump’s private clubs or offices in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. The point of this roster is to intercept and possibly rebuff attempted outreach, visits, or phone calls from a handful of conservative figures who could bring the ex-president more undesired headaches.
“Sidney is very much on the no-go list,” one of the knowledgeable sources said. “Her problems right now do not need to be the [former] president’s problems.”
Powell’s legal exposure right now is, of course, massive. And ever since she tried to work with Trump to orchestrate a coup [N.S.: What?!] last year against Joe Biden, feelings of frustration and bitterness have lingered between Trump and Powell. According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, since December, Powell has privately talked about how disappointed she was in Trump because he didn’t end up appointing her to a “special” role in his White House, where she would have probed “election fraud” conspiracy theories during the final days of his term.
[N.S.: Shades of Trump’s exploitation of Kris Kobach.]
“She sounded pretty broken up about it,” this person noted. “I felt sorry for her.” [N.S.: Talk about concern-trolling!]
Powell, for her part, said she hasn't tried to contact Trump for months.
“I'm not surprised by any of [those comments], but I have not sought to contact the President in any way since long before he left office,” Powell said in an email response to the daily beast. “My quest is simply for the Truth. The American people are fed up with lies from government and media.”
[N.S.: Unfortunately, men like Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani don’t give a fig for the truth.]
Even among the diehard election conspiracy theorists Powell’s work has occasionally attracted some skepticism. In an interview conducted in March, Michigan attorney Matt DePerno, whose election suit against Antrim County, Michigan, helped inspire the Arizona audit, was quick to distinguish his work from the litigation carried out by the likes of Powell. “We don't want anything to do with them and have nothing to do with them. From our perspective, the work that certain other camps did was a failure and our case is a success. We're not interested in tying ourselves to them,” he said.
In August, a federal judge sanctioned Powell for filing a frivolous “Kraken” suit to overturn the election in Michigan. In her ruling, Judge Linda Parker called the suit “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process” and ordered Powell and other attorneys who brought the suit to take “mandatory continuing legal education in the subjects of pleading standards and election law” and to reimburse the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit for their legal fees.
Shortly before that sanctions hearing, Powell’s nonprofit Defending the Republic announced that one of its attorneys would be stepping down from representing the group against Dominion Voting Systems’ billion dollar defamation suit. Powell first created the group in the wake of the 2020 election to help fund her post-election crusade against Dominion, which prompted the company to list the organization as a defendant alongside her.
Jesse Binnall, a longtime colleague of Powell who once worked alongside her representing Mike Flynn, stepped down as counsel for Powell’s nonprofit in the Dominion’s [sic] lawsuit on Thursday. Binnall declined to comment when reached by the daily beast on Friday.
Nor is that the only headache looming for Powell’s nonprofit. In July, the group ran afoul of Florida’s rules for charitable organizations when it allegedly began fundraising as a charity in the state before registering with the department of agriculture, which has jurisdiction over nonprofits. Nikki Fried, a Democrat who serves as Florida’s agriculture commissioner, filed a complaint against the group and the department told the ap that it was negotiating with representatives for the group over what kind of punishment would be appropriate.
Of course, not everyone has excommunicated Powell. She still enjoys the support of the most extreme of election conspiracy theorists, like fellow pro-Trump “Kraken” attorney Lin Wood. On Telegram, the encrypted social media chat app where the two have found refuge after numerous other apps booted them, Wood and Powell frequently share each others’ messages.
Powell can also count on the continued support and camaraderie of the MAGA universe’s leading pillow hypeman: Mike Lindell, a personal friend of Trump’s and a major financial backer of efforts to subvert or undo Biden’s decisive 2020 victory [sic].
[N.S.: the daily beast is a racial socialist rag; ergo, to its operatives, defending The Big Steal is a holy mission.]
The MyPillow CEO, much like Powell, is currently facing the mammoth lawsuits coming from Dominion, against some of Trumpworld’s biggest luminaries.
Lindell said on Thursday that though he and Powell “have not talked in the last couple weeks,” he still would collaborate with her and considers her a “great patriot, person, and lawyer!”
[N.S.: Good for you, Mike!
President Trump does not deserve the loyalty of heroic patriots like Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell. But America does.]
By Adam Rawnsley Senior Researcher and Asawin Suebsaeng Senior Political Reporter
October 1, 2021
the daily beast
All I remember was when I tried to click Sidney Powell's website --this,at the peak of her power with Trump--I was diverted to a site that only sold Powell's books.
ReplyDeleteAt that moment I felt she was in it for money/publicity--same as Rudy probably.
--GRA
The effort of those directly around Trump to investigate/expose 2020 election fraud was a clown show right from the start -- the few press events/conferences I saw were embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteMatt Braynard was perhaps the most responsible of those who quantitatively analysed voting in a number of contested jurisdictions:
Twitter/Matt Braynard
He produced concrete, actionable results, e.g. in Georgia -- it's not his fault no serious action was ever taken in response.
>“a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process”
ReplyDelete>reimburse the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit for their legal fees
Look at the image at the following link: Joe Biden overtook President Trump's lead through a small number of vote updates which broke overwhelmingly for Biden in Michigan in the early hours of the morning of November 4th.
It shows in graphical form the vote total updates reported in MI for both Biden and Trump, plotted against time (horizontal/bottom axis) -- recall election day was Tue Nov 3, but the big Biden vote spike, which pushed his total up to match Trump's (with practically zero votes for Trump), happened after 6am on Wed Nov 4 -- afterward, Biden's vote total continued to climb until he was slightly ahead of Trump, whereas up until 6am on Nov 4 Trump had a sizeable lead over Biden -- and re Detroit, as I recall the Nov 4 6am Biden vote spike came via ballots from Detroit and environs.
I don't know the content of the MI suit the judge essentially ridicules -- but AFAIK, this vote spike anomaly (almost 12 hours after the polls closed) has never been explained -- the Establishment would have you believe it is nothing suspicious; but honestly, that is ridiculous.