Posted on 11/30/2020 11:18:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump’s campaign distanced itself from lawyer Sidney Powell following a contentious back-and-forth with Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Did Carlson play a role in Powell’s apparent departure from the team?
The controversy began on Nov. 19, when Powell claimed that “communist money” sent through countries like “Venezuela, Cuba and possibly China” had been to help President-elect Joe Biden win the 2020 election via corrupted software. The Trump campaign, allies and the president himself have alleged massive voter fraud in the election.
Powell made other claims, including accusing two Republicans of being involved in a conspiracy regarding Georgia’s electronic voting system.
Carlson addressed the claims following Powell’s comments about the voting software, made during a press conference with Rudy Giuliani, on Nov. 19. Carlson said that Powell had been invited on the show and noted that “she never sent any evidence” backing up her claims. What’s more, according to Carlson, is that Powell allegedly did not provide evidence to those “around the Trump campaign,” either.
“We took Sidney Powell seriously,” Carlson said Nov. 19. “We had no intention of fighting with her … We simply wanted to see the details. How could you not want to see them? So we invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour. We would have given her the entire week, actually, and listened quietly the whole time at rapt attention.”
“But she never sent any evidence, despite a lot of requests – polite requests. Not a page,” he continued. “When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her. When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they told us Powell has never given them any evidence either. Nor did she provide any today at the press conference.”
After Carlson’s public call-out, many people reacted. Right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich tweeted that he would “wait and see,” adding that “giving benefit of the doubt to Sidney Powell is hardly some deadly sin.” Newsmax host Greg Kelly also went after Carlson, tweeting that it isn’t up to him to “decide if and when this election is over.”
Powell, too, publicly responded to Carlson multiple times. First, she issued a statement saying that “a 5 minute television hit is not” her “focus now,” Washington Examiner reporter Anthony Leonardi tweeted.
Powell further addressed Carlson’s call-out on Nov. 20 during a Fox Business show hosted by Maria Bartiromo. Powell said she was not angry when Carlson contacted her for evidence and blamed his “rude” attitude for her eventual non-responses.
“No, I didn’t get angry with the request to provide evidence,” Powell said. “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.”
“But he was very insulting, demanding, and rude, and I told him not to contact me again, in those terms,” Powell added.
That evening, Carlson gave an update on Powell’s voter fraud investigation. He said the show had heard from both “people in the White House and people close to the president” regarding Powell’s allegations.
“Like us, they have not seen a single piece of evidence showing that software changed votes,” Carlson reiterated. “Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen – it might have happened. It means they haven’t seen any evidence that it happened. And by ‘they,’ we are including other members of Donald Trump’s own legal team.”
“They have not seen Powell’s evidence either – no testimony from employees inside the software companies, no damning internal documents, no copies of the software itself,” he added before addressing Powell’s comments earlier in the day that America “may not have to wait much longer” for proof.
Carlson called claim this “great news.”
“If Sidney Powell can prove that technology companies switched millions of votes and stole the presidential election, she will have almost single-handedly uncovered the greatest crime in the history of this country. And no one will be more grateful for that than I,” he concluded.
Following the two-day blow up and Powell doubling down on her Nov. 19 claims, the Trump campaign issued a statement on Sunday evening effectively distancing itself from her. The campaign said that Powell “is practicing law on her own” and “is not a member of the Trump Legal Team” or Trump’s personal lawyer – despite the president noting her as a part of the team on Nov. 14.
“I understand today’s press release,” Powell said in a statement to CBS News on Sunday. “I will continued to represent #WeThePeople who had their votes for Trump and other Republicans stolen by massive fraud through Dominion and Smartmatic, and we will be filing suit soon.”
The question remains: Did Carlson calling out Powell and asking for proof to back up her accusations lead to Trump’s campaign publicly declaring she is not involved in the team?
Because her theory that votes were switched in SW is the opposite from the other cases that fraudulent votes were cast or created, mostly on paper. If we want to know how the election was stolen we need to see that paper. If the paper has been destroyed the results should be thrown out.
In contrast her theory that votes were switched by software or in a remote server is hard to prove and easy to disprove and the case will be tossed. My example is here in Virginia where results are sent from each precinct to the counties to the state. No SW or foreigner can change the numbers unless the tabulator was biased. In that case we would need a hand recount. Just one precinct would probably be sufficient (1 or 2 thousand ballots).
Who the hell does he think he is?
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He’s just another elitist who lives inside the DC bubble.
Why does Tucker think that he’s so important that she should play her hand early.
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Like Bill O’Reilly before him, believing his own headlines.. Bill used to say “everybody knows to win an election you have to come through the factor”...
Nope, because what happened was a clarification measure. Powell is not being paid by the White House. She is not on their payroll and is working independently from the Trump team. But, is still working along side them towards the same goal.
The would depend on the plaintiff not the lawyer. I have not heard anywhere that Powell or Wood are the Plaintiffs in these suits - just the lawyers.
And in other news, the crowing of the cock caused the Sun to rise ...
lol... its almost as bad as walking up behind a best friend and over hearing him talkin shit about you... smmfh... What a damned disappointment soooooo many people are turning out to be.
Nope.....the last thing anyone should think is that President Trump makes decisions on what a TV talking head thinks or does...
...”Why does Tucker think that he’s so important that she should play her hand early.”
That seems to happen all too often on FR. Some just can’t get over not being able to have evidence and proof NOW. Doesn’t seem to matter if the info/proof is equivalent to Top Secret or Eyes Only - they want it now...or it doesn’t exist. It’s getting harder to contribute and read that crap.
Tucker is not in charge of ANYTHING. He can take his demands and stuff them.
Rudy already explained the split.
There’s not much time left for Powell to present her evidence. Whatever she’s got, it must come out soon. I’m more than happy to wait for the few weeks that are left, and I’m not going to jump to condemn a woman who seems to be supporting the president. Let’s wait and see - it won’t be long.
No. Carlson is a windbag that couldn’t make a dollar doing anything else. BOYCOTT FOX
Did Auto-correct change my description from ‘toady group’ to ‘today group’?
Lin Wood is a Georgian voter?
Yes, Lin Woods lives in Georgia. He is filing his own election contest in Georgia.
Six months from now, if nothing changes, Biden will be sitting in the oval office. What good is it to establish then that he cheated to get there? They won't remove him. So what's the point of a slow moving lawsuit? To stop it from happening in the future? news flash: a Biden administration is not going to take steps to correct the fraud mechanisms that they used to steal the Presidency. Far from it.
Sidney’s work is still important.
She’s already got an injunction against wiping the machines in Georgia.
She has raised awareness that there are major issues that aren’t being addressed by Giuliani’s legislation.
That awareness is helping Giuliani’s call for public hearings with legislatures.
There may be judicial remedies implemented in the future that Biden and the states will have to comply with.
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Hmm... let’s see perhaps Sidney jumped the shark by accusing the CIA, Soros, Chavez, and China all conspiring to hack the election.
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