Trump Discussed Naming Campaign Lawyer as Special Counsel on Election Fraud

New York Times ^ | December 19, 2020 | By Maggie Haberman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

[Jayster]

In a meeting at the White House on Friday, the president weighed appointing Sidney Powell, who promoted conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines, to probe voter fraud.

President Trump on Friday discussed making Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed a series of conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, a special counsel investigating voter fraud, according to two people briefed on the discussion.

It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan.

Most of his advisers opposed the idea, two of the people briefed on the discussion said, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, who in recent days sought to have the Department of Homeland Security join the campaign’s efforts to overturn Mr. Trump’s loss in the election.

[MHGinTN]

It is the New Yawk Slimes. Have you learned nothing about their propaganda efforts?

[ml/nj]

conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines

TIMES: conspiracy theory

ENGLISH: established fact

ML/NJ

[MHGinTN]

That movie and No More Secrets ...

[MHGinTN]

Make her AG and she can have that quisling bass turd arrest and tried for sedition, among other criminal activities.

[Luke21]

These names the commies have are funny as hell.

[PGR88]

He should have fired Sessions the second the Keebler Elf recused himself from “all things Russia” under such flimsy pretext, and named her Attorney General

[tired&retired]

As a result of three generations of One Child Policy in China, they have a very large elderly population to support.

Now you see why they were engineering a virus to kill only the elderly and disabled. It’s the Jack Kevorkian method to bail out Social Security.

[JohnnyP]

Higgins. “You’ve done more damage than you know. How do you know they’ll print it?”

[FormerFRLurker]

Would this be the same Sidney Powell who keeps telling us the Kraken will be released any day now and turns up nothingburger after nothingburger? That Sidney Powell?

If she’s so good, why wasn’t she named Special Counsel earlier?

[Fido969]

You realize this is the Times, so at least 90% of it is fake news.

[nicollo]

From the Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks:

On Jan 13, 2015, at 8:36 PM, Nick Merrill
> wrote: Here's the draft of the memo for feedback, both attached and below. Earned Media/Next Steps January 2015

Placing a Story

....

We have has a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year. We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed. While we should have a larger conversation in the near future about a broader strategy for reengaging the beat press that covers HRC, for this we think we can achieve our objective and do the most shaping by going to Maggie.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7524