Did Tucker Carlson Cause The Trump Campaign To Distance Itself From Sidney Powell?

Daily Caller ^ | 11/28/2020 | Shelby Talcott

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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?

[miserare]

...And he sexually harasses women.

[Texas Fossil]

Thank you. All relevant arguments.

There should not be a question if a sane Judge examines only a few of them. Question? Is there a Sane Judge who would touch this??

[linMcHlp]

A judge? Yes.

Statistics are evidence. Levels of probability are evidence; and there is a "beyond a reasonable doubt" level among those levels of probability.

Though odd-ball, or rare, or less likely, events can occur and some do occur, there remain preponderance levels of probability.

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Disenfranchisement is a judicial and political buzzword.

Yet there are judges who, in their pursuit of rubbing out what they say is disenfranchisement of some number of people, end up creating greater disenfranchisement of actual residents who make the effort to observe all the lawful and legal processing to make their votes count.

"Count every ballot" is sweeping, and that careless administrative and/or judicial decision means, that ANYBODY in the world, could vote in Pennsylvania, given the state's careless and crude administration of ballots (no signature, no established date of reception stamp, no USPS confirming postal markings).

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Former FBI Special Agent finds MASSIVE number of absentee votes from non-residents in Georgia

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3910326/posts?page=1434#1434

[MHGinTN]

Your link is to an essay which is not accurate. No Scytl servers were gathered in the Frankfurt raid. May heve been Scytl but they are owned by see eye ay treasonous bastards. The good guys own them now, and all the data on them.

[little jeremiah]

No. She never was hired by Trump. She was assisting in the general effort to find evidence of fraud, and she’s still doing that.

Tucker is a POS for what he did to her. Whether that initiated Ellis’ specific statement I of course don’t know, and it really doesn’t matter, as Ellis was just make clear what had been the actual situtaion all along.

Giuliani and Ellis are working directly for, and paid by, Trump Campaign, and are filing specific suits. Powell is working on other suits, and working, afaik, for donations to a legal fund.

[little jeremiah]

Suits will most likely get bumped up to SCOTUS quickly, whichever way a judge rules. Then SCOTUS can hear massive evidence, and thankfully there are enough sane constitutionalists to vote the right way.

[palmer]

All I do is point out the facts. The fact is that Virginia vote totals cannot be changed by a server in Germany. The totals are added from the precincts through the counties. Granted all kinds of SW "glitches", purposeful misconfiguration, etc can happen before the totals are reported. But once the totals are reported upwards, they cannot be changed downwards. My precincts votes, about 850 to 150 Trump were reported early (I saw them on the state website about 8pm) and could not be changed after that. Fairfax and other Dem strongholds kept sending votes all night. Obviously their totals changed, as they created/destroyed/counted more ballots.

It is a fact that there was fraud in VIrginia, much more than usual, with large numbers of mail ballots that could not be validated. That's in addition to our usual large numbers of illegals voting, dead people voting, double voting (lots of that a year ago), "irregularities" of various kinds.

[MHGinTN]

You asserted, “The totals are added from the precincts through the counties.” Are the amounts transmitted via phone or internet for totaling?

[MHGinTN]

Are you aware that the Dominion machines for receiving the votes have a malware which allows ‘someone’ (Chinese) to gather the passwords of the administrators who can log onto the machines?

[TChad]

Powell is working on other suits, and working, afaik, for donations to a legal fund.

Yes. She could not be fired from the Trump team because they never hired her and they were not paying her.

Tucker's offer to Sidney was in effect a demand that she stop the frenzied preparation required for her to present her case in court, and instead spend a week preparing a profitable show for Tucker. It was an offer that any competent attorney would have refused, as Tucker should have known.

Did Tucker ever acknowledge receiving the stuff that Sidney says she sent him?

[Texas Fossil]

Thank you. Amazing work.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I’ve read her filings and unfortunately she provided no evidence for her election machine hacking claims. All the affidavits on that specific matter are opinions from “experts”, none of which had any first hand knowledge of election hacking in the US. She needs actual witnesses to the deed, not just persons who claim it is possible. OTOH, I certainly believe democrats stuffed the ballot box the old fashioned way.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Yes autocorrect did that

[Texas Fossil]

A lot hinges on that happening. God will ultimately decide this.

It is our duty as citizens of this great nation to do our part in ending this evil grab for power.

[palmer]

You asserted, “The totals are added from the precincts through the counties.” Are the amounts transmitted via phone or internet for totaling?

AFAICT it's the DS-200 whixh has a cellular modem to connect to the internet. Don't know the protocol, I need to research that some more. The key point is that each precinct level result is display locally and recorded by the elections officials along with the party onlookers. Those tally sheets are stored at the courthouse. All those papers have to add up to the totals shown for Virginia.

There are lots of ways to cheat, but those require creation or destruction of ballots and mail ballot fraud. It's hard to multiple count ballots on election day because they are inside the locked box attached to the tabulator. The number of voters has to match the pollbooks and the number of ballots used up (including voided ballots). The best way to cheat on election day is illegals voting, multiple registration.

But prior to election day anything goes, multiple counting, alteration of incoming ballots, creating of completely fraudulent ballots. Mail-in voting is a disaster.

[palmer]

Are you aware that the Dominion machines for receiving the votes have a malware which allows ‘someone’ (Chinese) to gather the passwords of the administrators who can log onto the machines?

I'm pretty knowledgable of stuff like that, so please send me a link.

[raptor22]

TUCKER CARLSON EMBRACES LIBERAL GROUPTHINK, LIES ABOUT TRUMP ATTY SIDNEY POWELL AND IGNORES “HAMMER AND SCORECARD” AND DOMINION HACKING EVIDENCE https://912communique.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tucker-carlson-lies-about-sidney-powell-dominion-hacking-proof#.X8KPkFDlCKA.twitter #stopthesteal #tuckercarlson #fakenews #fauxnews #foxnews #whatthefox #dominion #fraud #votefraud

[raptor22]

TUCKER CARLSON EMBRACES LIBERAL GROUPTHINK, LIES ABOUT TRUMP ATTY SIDNEY POWELL AND IGNORES “HAMMER AND SCORECARD” AND DOMINION HACKING EVIDENCE https://912communique.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tucker-carlson-lies-about-sidney-powell-dominion-hacking-proof#.X8KPkFDlCKA.twitter #stopthesteal #tuckercarlson #fakenews #fauxnews #foxnews #whatthefox #dominion #fraud #votefraud