Posted on 11/24/2020 6:25:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There has been much speculation since Sunday as to why the Trump legal team would throw attorney Sidney Powell under the bus. The suggestion has been made, not only by left-leaning media outlets, but also those formerly seen as trusted news sources, that Powell’s contention that the election was stolen largely through the manipulations of Dominion voting machines employed in battleground states are the ravings of a crazed conspiracy theorist.
My opinion differs. That opinion, likely shared by many of the 73 million voters who chose Trump, is informed not only by common sense and a regard for the truth, but also from my work as a prosecutor successfully trying scores of cases to judge and jury.
Ms. Powell’s summary of the facts, as presented at last Thursday’s press conference and as expounded upon during the past few days, is the kind and quality of substantial evidence, which, if presented to a jury, would easily result in a unanimous verdict by all twelve jurors, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the re-election of Donald J Trump was stolen through the use of the Dominion voting software systems installed in states throughout our country.
For those who want a refresher on that evidence, I recommend Joe Hoft’s excellent article published Nov. 23 in Gateway Pundit where he summarizes not only our common-sense observations regarding the national enthusiasm for Donald Trump in comparison to Basement Joe, but also provides a litany of expert and statistical analyses, including that by MIT Ph.D. Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai all converging on one inescapably reasonable conclusion: the election was stolen.
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Everything was fine between Sidney and the Trump legal team until, a few days after the joint press conference, she gave an interview on Newsmax where she claimed that the governor of Georgia and the secretary of state (both Republicans, by the way) had conspired and received bribes to install the Dominion voting system in their state. I can assume there were a few phone calls to the White House from individuals angry at the allegation.
I don’t know if those allegations are true but whether high ups in the Republican party received kickbacks or were complicit in installing the Dominion system is an issue far secondary to whether the cancer of the Dominion voting machines and its pernicious software will be ripped root and branch from the machinery of the American election process. If Sidney Powell and the Trump team fail in that goal, then not only will Trump lose this election but so also We the People will have lost our Constitutional republic.
This is a civil matter, not criminal, so the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard is way beyond what we need to show. At this point, all Sidney needs to do is present enough evidence to convince a jury that there was something amiss that led to the election being stolen. At that point the burden shifts to the defense to produce evidence that offsets the plaintiff’s evidence. The winner is the one whose case demonstrates “:the preponderance of the evidence,” that is, essentially, “more likely than not.”
I have come to believe, and it is a depressing realization for me, that both Democrats and Republicans are complicit in this farce that is Dominion Voting Systems.
Look at Governor Kemp down in Georgia. I think he is as dirty in this as the day is long. He won’t be at all willing to help look into it, which means it won’t be looked into.
I do not know for certain that any widespread election fraud directly involving Dominion Systems has taken place, but I have seen both behavior and indicators in my mind that it has.
Thing is, pursuing that and proving it (Dominion Systems fraud and abuse) would take the cooperation of the people involved in it to nail it down, and they certainly are not going to cooperate.
Without that cooperation, I don’t believe it can be looked at in the time frame need to right this wrong.
So the Trump team is likely putting all their eggs into the eyewitness/signed affidavit basket because that is the only thing they may be able to put forth in this astonishingly narrow time frame.
We should not have computerized voting. Never. Perhaps one good thing is this complete fiasco may wake people up to the danger of this.
Anyone who says the computerized voting systems cannot be abused, that there are too many safeguards in place is a complete fool in my opinion.
As the persecution of Donald Trump and his associates by the FISA court shows, you can have miles of hurdles put in place to stop abuses of the system, but if people decide to deliberately sidestep those hurdles and are not punished for it...there is nothing to stop them.
One thing is for Powell to be disassociated from Trump’s legal team. Another thing is for that very same team to dismiss Powell’s accusations, which it has never done. All Giuliani stated is that she and his team are looking at two different theories, and you cannot rule out those theories not being mutually exclusive. It may all be a matter of “let Sidney do her thing” without any involvement (and discouragement) from Rudy’s folks.
One thing for certain Biden cannot be allowed to take office. I’m not real picky about how that happens.
Does anyone know where we can send money to support her? I looked but I could not find anything?
Truth is, you could make the case, when the cop stole the donut on live TV, it was still circumstantial.
“The winner is the one whose case demonstrates “:the preponderance of the evidence,” that is, essentially, “more likely than not.””
Good post! We are all guessing and do not have much longer to wait if we believe Powell (which I do!).
I have a question. Let’s assume she prevails, what is the remedy??
Until Sidney starts filing some suits, I can’t even tell you who the plaintiffs are. She might actually be going for indictments from what’s being said by her and the Trump Team’s decision to separate from her. The criminal cases would delay Trump’s civil cases, and time is important.
“She might actually be going for indictments....”
I’m no lawyer, but as I understand she will be filing a civil case. She does not have the authority to file a criminal case. Correct?
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Never. And card reading machines should never be connected to the internet, either.
LOL, I get the impression you might be poking fun at me there...
Well. I am not a Luddite by any means (and a good thing considering what I do for a living) and banking seems to be done securely (generally speaking) so could it be done securely?
I think so. But I am more concerned, as someone once said, “It is not important who who votes, it is important who counts the votes”.
I no longer have any trust in people, governments, or checks placed on people or governments to keep things legitimate.
Since this spying campaign perpetrated by the Obama Administration and the Democrats, I have come to believe that checks and laws are only as worthwhile as the people’s or government’s intact moral compass that exists.
And I have come to believe that while individuals may possess moral compasses, I don’t believe any longer that people connected with government or the government itself any longer has a valid moral compass.
I can’t believe how that looks for me to write that. I have never felt fully that way in my life.
But after the last four years of watching the abuse of power used as a political tool against a sitting President with very few people in the government speaking out against it
(never mind punishing it) I simply don’t believe in it anymore.
I don’t know whether she’s filing civil, criminal or both. At this point, she’s just an investigator as far as I can tell. She’s a former federal prosecutor but will need to find an active one in the relevant jurisdiction to move on the indictments.
“I don’t know whether she’s filing civil, criminal, or both.”
Just to be clear, if she wants to file a criminal case she can not take that action herself. She must make a referral to the appropriate governmental prosecutor.
My opinion is that if the above is true, she will be filing a civil case. It is not clear who the defendants will be, but a good guess might be Dominion (and their subs) or perhaps the politicians that spent taxpayer massive amounts of taxpayer money on fraudulent voting equipment and may have received some enumeration in the process.
I am only guessing. I suspect the guessing will be over by the end of the day on Monday (or sooner).
Who would be the plaintiff(s)? Those standing issues can blow a case out pretty quickly.
Thanks to both of you.
“Who would be the plaintiff(s)? Those standing issues can blow a case out pretty quickly.”
Yes. I understand standing. It seems a taxpayer in the state would have standing at the state level or any U.S. citizen would have standing in the case of an election fraud violation or civil rights violation.
I can’t imagine that an attorney like Powell does not have that figured out. While not successful in the Flynn case (yet), her arguments have seemed reasonable and I suspect she is not through with that case regardless of a very committed, and likely biased judge.
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