Posted on 10/23/2023 10:55:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The election conspiracy theorist struck a deal that allows her to avoid prison by testifying for the prosecution.
After the 2020 presidential election, Sidney Powell tirelessly promoted a baroque conspiracy theory claiming that Donald Trump had been deprived of his rightful victory by a combination of deliberately corrupted voting machines and phony ballot dumps. At first, Powell explicitly did that on behalf of the Trump campaign, joining the "elite strike force team" of lawyers who were determined to reverse Joe Biden's victory. She also pressed her outlandish and unsubstantiated fraud claims in numerous TV appearances and in lawsuits she filed on behalf of aggrieved Republicans. And even after the Trump campaign disassociated itself from Powell on November 22, 2020, the president and representatives such as Rudy Giuliani continued to tell the same basic story.
The fruitless attempts to validate that story included a bizarre incident in which employees of SullivanStrickler, a forensic data firm hired by Powell, copied election software and ballot records at the Board of Elections and Registration Office in Coffee County, Georgia, on January 7, 2021, the day after Trump supporters enraged by his stolen-election fantasy rioted at the U.S. Capitol. That freelance investigation was the basis for the state criminal charges to which Powell pleaded guilty on Thursday, the day before her election-related racketeering trial was scheduled to begin.
Under her plea agreement, Powell will avoid any time behind bars and, if she successfully completes six years of probation, a criminal record. What did Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis get in exchange? It's a question that should worry Trump, the lead defendant in the Georgia case.
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I’m not sure it hurts President Trump. Powell was a kook, that was misled by kooks (USAF LTG McInerney, etc.)
Law and order being a pillar of conservatism-
Trump treated more unlawfully and disorderly than any other American-
the opposition is similar to gays for hamas in the making sense dept.
where are all of the “200k check to Biden could sink his Presidency” headlines?
Wow, another leftist post, Entropy. I am conservative, not anti-Trump. When Trump, does something conservative, I cheer. When he goes against conservatism, I am against it. You said I should support it anyway. No.
And you cover up the fact I said these prosecutions against Trump are stupid and unlawful. Why did you cover that up?
I said Sydney Powell was an idiot, who was doing nothing for election integrity. In fact, she hurt it, by making it look ridiculous. But at the time, you and many other Freepers were cheering her on. I turned out to be right, but you won't admit it.
As a conservative, I don't care about an "R" next to someone's name. I have criticized Trump, DeSantis, anyone if they are wrong. You say I should support them, no matter what.
No.
Why do you bash anyone who goes against the deep state.
Look at Sessions. You guys cheered him, and how he was the first to support Trump. Then you hated him and said how bad he is. But you never explained how it happened that you went from one to another. When you hated Sessions, all the sudden you wouldn't admit you cheered him before, just like a Democrat.
Same with Pence, etc. And Priebus. You knew he was bad, but you had no problem when Trump made him chief if staff.
Trump appointed one RINO and deep stater after another threw his whole term. Including a Fed Chief and FBI Director that Biden kept. And you get mad if someone mentions it. Why is that? You say Trump should have no accountability for who he picked. That is a Democrat idea. You have turned Trump into an Obama. And anyone who uses conservative thinking is anathema to you. Why?
Because everyone, on both sides, knows, no matter what Biden did, he's not going to get in trouble. Wishing it wasn't so won't make it true.
I always thought she was a kook, but a lot of people around here thought she was onto something.
Don’t worry, when I was younger and more foolish, I actually thought Bill Clinton would get in trouble, for a while.
The most experienced politicians with the best advisors make bad selections. They usually do a better job in the second term.
Even Bush made a few token conservative picks. Trump wouldn't even do that.
“But Trump is the first to make no good picks. “
All of Trump’s picks that worked on Trade were good, they all lasted to the end of his Administration, and achieved their objectives.
Of course, a “free trade” fool wouldn’t see Trump’s trade changes as accomplishments.
The only people worried about what Powell will say are those who think Trump has something to hide.
None of that triumvirate was bad per se. They are all career lifelong politicians. So is DeSantis and Nikki Haley. We need an outsider, with more energy, sharper, and bolder than Trump to really turn this country around. The most serious problem is the debt. But not many are talking about this.
In absence of anybody better than Trump, I have only one choice left, which is to support Trump.
She has already spoken in person to the FBI and/or she has provided a written “proffer” as to what she would testify to if called as a witness against co-defendants (including DJT), in exchange she got 6 misdemeanor charges to plead guilty to and 7 dropped felonies. Not a bad deal. She will likely provide hearsay testimony as to what she will claim are Trump direct quotes and his level of involvement in the plan (aka conspiracy) in Georgia, and maybe Michigan. Yes, hearsay can be admitted as evidence in court.
Funny Trump now lamely says she was never his attorney.
That’s absurd.
I’m not going to debate name for name-
but achieving peace on earth and growing an economy after six previous years of growth were previously coincidentally unachievable by any other administration.
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