Posted on 11/21/2020 4:17:24 AM PST by Libloather
Whatever else she may do, attorney Sidney Powell will forever be remembered for her appearance at a Thursday news conference to allege voter fraud. “What we are really dealing with here and uncovering more by the day is the massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba and likely China in the interference with our elections here in the United States,” Powell said, flanked by fellow Trump attorneys Rudolph W. Giuliani and Jenna Ellis.
The astonishing declaration was just more of the same from Powell, who also represents former national security adviser Michael Flynn and has been spinning scary and baseless theories about voter fraud in the aftermath of President Trump’s electoral defeat. Central to her campaign is the idea that, somehow, corrupt vote-switching strategies from the 2013 presidential election in Venezuela had surfaced in the Biden-Trump contest.
Fact-checkers and others have blasted Powell’s nonsense, which blends into a bare-knuckled attempt by Trump to use his powers to overturn the Nov. 3 elections. On Thursday night, an unexpected voice joined the chorus: “Sidney Powell has been saying similar things for days,” said Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “On Sunday night, we texted her after watching one of her segments. What Powell was describing would amount to the single greatest crime in American history. Millions of votes stolen in a day. Democracy destroyed. The end of our centuries-old system of self-government, not a small thing.”
**SNIP**
Or his minimizing of Trump’s mendacity and corruption during the Mueller investigation? Or his hyping of the “unmasking” non-scandal that supposedly targeted the Trump administration?
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Betting on a dark horse.
Clucker is dead and will not be revived.
When Tucker was doing his weekly quiz with various Fox News personalities, the “Eric Wemple” coffee mug was the prize. Seems he’s some dork from the WaPo who had criticized Tucker at one time.
LEARN to CODE, buddy boy. Fake News happy days are over when Trump gets rolling in his second term. Ha!
BTTT
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