“Her mistake was to have the normal and appropriate reaction that the information could not be ignored, without the accompanying realistic realization the Deep State that was going to do everything in its power to ridicule her...”
Those of us who were following the Lindell Cyber Symposium saw almost as it was happening how the infiltrators slip in their false information. What happened to Powell showed Lindell that they’d be trying the same thing with him.
A lot of people buy into the media presentation of reality instead of thinking for themselves.
You see it on Free Republic often enough to realize how well it works.