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Where's the Evidence? Fox News Host Presses Sidney Powell on Voter Fraud. She Has Responded.
Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 11/20/2020 11:57:16 AM PST by Kaslin

Fox News has had its moments during this election cycle. There’s been considerable frustration and anger with the hosts. Election Night was a disaster for the network. Other hot mic moments have infuriated viewers. They cut away from a Trump White House presser on voter fraud. It’s been a mess. Tucker Carlson appeared to have taken a swipe at his colleagues, noting you just can’t cut away from news coverage that you don’t like. Yet, last night, it was different. Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell says she has evidence of vote fraud. She said that it will prove that President Trump won in a landslide.

The voter fraud scandal itself, if true, would be the biggest in American history by more than a few touchdowns. It would be cataclysmic, to say the least—and yet—she didn’t come onto Tucker’s show. The reason: when pressed for evidence to back up these claims, she got frustrated and told Fox News not to contact her (via WaPo):

Tucker has seen enough (of Sidney Powell anyway)

pic.twitter.com/XDcBfmZtkd— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) November 20, 2020

As Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted on Thursday night, he’s more than willing to give airtime to outlandish claims. “We literally do UFO segments,” he said.

But even Carlson said he was fed up with the total lack of evidence produced by Sidney Powell, one of the Trump campaign’s attorneys, for her unfounded allegation that electronic voting systems had switched millions of ballots to favor President-elect Joe Biden.

“We invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour,” Carlson said. “But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests. Not a page. When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her.”

Carlson also noted: “She never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another. Not one.”

… Carlson didn’t discount the larger claims of Trump’s attorneys that massive fraud disrupted the election — an allegation that has been repeatedly dismissed in court and for which the White House has presented no public evidence.

[…]

The segment also put Carlson at odds with other Fox News hosts like Jesse Watters, who on his Thursday show described Powell and Giuliani’s news conference as “a big shot of adrenaline.”

Well, she responded this morning (via Washington Examiner):

Trump attorney Sidney Powell fires back: Tucker Carlson was 'insulting, demanding, and rude' -- https://t.co/leMZ1Scj7d -- for @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/CTDKxZnJql— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) November 20, 2020

Sidney Powell, an attorney on President Trump's election legal team, shot back at Fox News host Tucker Carlson the morning after he said she "got angry" and refused to provide evidence on his show for her claims of voting software flipping votes.

"No, I didn’t get angry with the request to provide evidence," the former federal prosecutor said Friday morning during an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.

"In fact, I sent an affidavit to Tucker that I had not even attached to a pleading yet to help him understand the situation, and I offered him another witness who could explain the mathematics and the statistical evidence far better than I can. I’m not really a numbers person," she added.

"But he was very insulting, demanding, and rude, and I told him not to contact me again, in those terms," Powell concluded.

He said, she said, but pulling back from this spat between Carlson and Powell—there needs to be some sort of significant development regarding her Dominion allegations, a sequel that should drop soon—something—because the clock is running out.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; donaldtrump; joebiden; sidneypowell; voterfraud
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To: Kaslin

101 posted on 11/20/2020 2:02:27 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: StAnDeliver
Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress

He was last seen heading for a late night walk at Fort Macy park...

102 posted on 11/20/2020 2:03:17 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: bankwalker

Heir to the Swanson fortune, I read today.


103 posted on 11/20/2020 2:03:43 PM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: Herodes
Every time you watch Fox (which I don’t anymore) your helping to pay the salaries of Juan Williams, Donna Brazile, Chris Wallace...

bump

104 posted on 11/20/2020 2:04:45 PM PST by alrea
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To: joshua c
The only way to defund them is to cancel cable tv.

I'm sure you and your merry little band of followers is going to impact the cable industry.............Ain't gonna happen.........LOL!

105 posted on 11/20/2020 2:10:11 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: palmer

There was a connection to the internet & votes were sent to Germany & Spain. The votes could have been changed at either site or remotely by anyone with knowledge of the code to access the feed. Today I read the feed was accessed by 4 other Nations.
Ballots have already been shredded according to observers in Georgia. Even an audit will not be enough because of the naked mail in ballots that can no longer be authenticated and may not be able to be counted at all.


106 posted on 11/20/2020 2:11:59 PM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: JayGalt
Ballots have already been shredded according to observers in Georgia.

That violates federal law.

107 posted on 11/20/2020 2:20:48 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer
That violates federal law.
Laws are for suckers. And Republicans.
(But I repeat myself.)

108 posted on 11/20/2020 2:23:48 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch

The Law’s an ass.


109 posted on 11/20/2020 2:24:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin; All
Asking for a friend....

Are all of these legal maneuvers and claims just sleight of hand to keep the media and democRATS distracted while President Trump has a bigger rabbit to pull out of his hat?

Specifically, I'm referring to this EO from 2018 and his declaration of a National Emergency regarding foreign interference in our national elections. Is this his hole card or his ace up his sleeve?

I was encouraged by the Giuliani presser yesterday but it is starting to look like too little too late. I think their real legal strategy is to deny Biden the magical 270 electoral votes so that he can't possibly win and thereby throwing the whole election outcome over to the House for the state legislatures to vote on.

But I don't trust the Republicans as far as I can throw them. Will they do the right thing by their party? I fear they will end up stabbing the president in the back and verifying for Biden instead. Think people like Romney and Sasse.

Or is Trump contemplating a military intervention to deal with this stolen election based on a national security point of view? Is he bold enough to do that? He did fire the Sec. of Defense. Some say to get a general that will pull troops out of Afghanistan. Some say to raid and seize the servers involved in stealing the election. Or might it be to go after the traitors who were involved in stealing the election?

According to Sidney Powell and Giuliani, we had voting machines from Venezuela, with offices in Canada (Dominion) and owned by a company (Scytl) in Barcelona, Spain with voting data routed through servers in Frankfurt, Germany. We even have allegations that our own CIA was involved in hacking this election for Biden.

Is it possible that Trump is waiting to pull the pin on declaring a national security emergency and throwing out the elections and votes of those locations that were using these vote changing machines and software and declaring himself the winner?

for the record, I am 100% behind Trump. I want him in office for a 2nd term. I have told others on this forum not to bet against the president. I still have confidence that he can pull this off.

So my question is, what do others think the real strategy is? The legal route with the lawyers to the Supreme Court?

Or declaring a national security emergency because of foreign interference in the general election and declaring it null and void? Dealing with it by the military tribunals ? Seizing assets? Arresting bad players? Coloring outside the lines to win this thing and hit the Deep State and maybe some of the media at the same time?

Anybody care to comment or speculate? Like I said, I am asking for a friend....

110 posted on 11/20/2020 2:36:26 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: palmer

Yes. But much has been done that violates federal law.

Citizen Susan Knox Video Report

https://twitter.com/i/status/1329883971040243713

https://twitter.com/i/status/1329884905715724288

https://twitter.com/i/status/1329885518386114560


111 posted on 11/20/2020 2:54:36 PM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: Shadow44

“I’m kind of surprised at how many people only realize now that Fox News has always been Neoconservative and a false opposition.”

Old habits die hard :-). They started to fly off the rails during the 2004 election in my opinion. I almost shut them off permanently when they were orgasmic the night of the 2006 midterms.

They should just call themselves neocon news from this point forward. Paul Ryan certainly had a “little” bit of influence there, wouldn’t you say? :-).

I also have a minority opinion of Sean Hannity ... he seemed like a GOPe parrot for the longest time. I wouldn’t be surprised if he pulls a Tucker and starts informing his audience that Trump is finished. I hope I’m wrong ... I know a lot of conservatives love the guy ... he simply rubs me the wrong way ... any time he argues with a liberal, he seems to yell and roll his eyes ... maybe repeat something ... he isn’t very good at debating!


112 posted on 11/20/2020 3:02:19 PM PST by edh
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To: palmer

No, the assumption is if split ticket voters voted Biden over Trump, it would be a constant percentage from precinct to precinct. IF 10% of the Republicans in precinct x voted for Biden, then on average, 10% of the voters in precinct y and z would vote for Biden.

What the graph showed was that the more Republican the precinct, overall, the LARGER PERCENTAGE of Republicans voted for Biden over Trump. That defies logic and reason.

There is no reason for the greater percentage of Pro Trump Precincts to have a higher PERCENTAGE of Biden voters.

None.


113 posted on 11/20/2020 3:07:27 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Kaslin

I think Tucker is toast. He has lost credibility for not commenting on what FOX did on election night or to Jean Pirro and yet he says journalist are dishonest .... and it is generally true and it is true in the case of Tucker. Tucker had on a leftist journalist who quit his own company for their censoring his remarks on the election. If Tucker had integrity he would do the same with FOX. But Tucker wants the show more than his reputation. And this thing with Sydney? An affidavit is EVIDENCE. Tucker should know that. I use to like Tucker and would excuse his mannerisms to parting guests like, “that the smartest think I’ve heard” or “that is really wise and deep words.” His heart was in the right place and he did the Bobulinski interview flawlessly to help Trump. But if he stays with the FOX he is toast. Maybe he doesn’t know it yet. Or maybe he does and he thinks it will be seen as a comedown to go to a lesser network or do the Bill O’ Reilly thing after he got let go. Tucker does have an ego and painful as it is, he should look to that leftist journalist — can’t think of his name off hand — to do the right thing and leave FOX.


114 posted on 11/20/2020 3:52:04 PM PST by BEJ
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To: grey_whiskers

Kraftwerk?


115 posted on 11/20/2020 3:54:04 PM PST by Bikkuri (Joe Biden: "Abraham Lincoln is the most racist president ever.")
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To: stockpirate

“almost”?


116 posted on 11/20/2020 4:15:34 PM PST by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be prettyI wish he and Hannity)
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To: grey_whiskers

Good ol’ Dieter, a blast from the past!

The last bit that was funny on SNL, by my reckoning.


117 posted on 11/20/2020 4:18:46 PM PST by OKSooner (BLOAT)
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To: PghBaldy

Wow, interesting info. Thanks for posting it.


118 posted on 11/20/2020 4:20:46 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: xenia

Rush aired a clip of Sidney today where she affirmed to Maria B. that she would have evidence to present in two weeks.

We must maintain our patience, no matter how difficult.


119 posted on 11/20/2020 4:22:46 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: StAnDeliver

Exactly, “have you talked to Eric Coomer? WHY NOT?”

Oh,, right journalism isn’t going to let curiosity get in the way of invites to cocktail parties in the DC Swamp.


120 posted on 11/20/2020 4:26:03 PM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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