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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
The only thing she pled guilty to was opening up a dominion voting machine, several weeks or months after the election. The whole Krapen thing was dismissed.
if this is a crime, will they charge, arrest, and try hillary and AllGore for the same thing?
Trump disowned her...and just because he knows/knew her doewsn’t make him a conspirator.
No, it won’t hurt Trump because he had nothing to do with her and blocked her out. They will never show any kind of trail, paper or electronic, where Trump gave her marching orders or communications of any kind.
She did what she did only because she does not have or does not want to have to pay the million dollar legal fee it would take to defend herself.
I guess you missed where she was never his lawyer, what exactly can she testify to? That she “believes” trump is bad?
Put this down with the rest of the 11,435 times “you got Trump now.”
TDS is curable, the process can be painful but the exposure to reality is a wonderful experience.
Isn't Jacob Sullum a drooling Leftist, verging on Communist, of many decades' scribbling?
What's he doing, pretending to be a Libertarian--and what's Reason doing, printing his socialist drool?
Trump is going to be exiled, like Napoleon was, and for the same reasons.
There’s no St. Helena equivalent in the modern age, so it looks like it will have to be ADX Florence.
There’s no peaceful way forward for his return to power.
“Put this down with the rest of the 11,435 times “you got Trump now.”
The idiot where I work (he has TDS) actually said out loud last week “The walls are closing in on Trump now”.
I gave my usual retort “Yes, for 7 years the walls have been closing in...”
People are so stupid....willingly supporting tyranny and third world politics.
Trump’s team and Powell separated. Everything she is in court for happened after they were separated. - paraphrasing Rudy on his radio program
Short Fat Fanny is looking for a $10 million book deal here.
Ok, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that all of the activities alleged are first amendment protected, and not criminally actionable AT ALL.
I know the police state aspect of all this is just a troublesome detail but it should be remembered nonetheless
buzzword for today—> “COULD”
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The first Ammendment doesn’t apply to people that say they are Republicans.
I'm still waiting for her to "release the kraken".
You should know that poster nickcarraway is anti-Trump. Therefore it is best to ignore him on issues regarding Trump & 2024.
“There’s no peaceful way forward for his return to power.”
There’s no peaceful way for them to just disenfranchise half the country either though...
Powell was originally part of Trump’s legal team. Trump announced it himself.
‘I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS!’ Trump tweeted.
‘Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!’
It is has taken mammoth effort-90% industry/institution/billionaires colluding/conspiring for Dems to maintain the slimmest of power.
Not only is there a peaceful out-
it’s coming sooner not later.
The coin can’t keep coming up heads before implicit assumptions are attached-isn’t NYU fertile ground for CIA/FBI/NSA types?
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