Monday, November 23, 2020

Making Sense of the News About Sidney Powell

Release the Krakken?

You probably already know that Trump's legal team announced that Sidney Powell is not a team member.  The brief statement leaves unanswered the most important question: "Why?"  Absent solid information, speculation leads us either to "This is the beginning of the end" or "This is all part of the plan" — and I'm leaning to the latter.

Events happened with head-spinning speed.  On Thursday, Trump's legal team held a press conference.  Rudy Giuliani talked about traditional voter fraud (cemetery voters, faked ballots, etc.); Sidney Powell talked about corrupt, or corruptible, election software, a familiar topic to the State of TexasNPR, and MSNBC; and Jenna Ellison reminded the press that the conference was not an evidentiary hearing but was, instead, an opening statement.

For over a week, Powell has been making the media rounds, asserting that the system used in several states — Dominion Software, running on Smartmatic machines — originated in Venezuela when Hugo Chávez wanted a system that could cleanly swing elections his way.  She spoke about votes being counted abroad, software changes, and vote manipulation over the internet.

While her numbers were breathtaking (Trump "had at least 80 million votes"), Powell's stated facts tracked available information: Smartmatic came out of Venezuela; in 2007, Smartmatic announced that it was selling its Sequoia Voting Systems to Dominion; the chairman of Smartmatic's board is a George Soros crony; the system is easily hackable; Georgia's system was vulnerable; and the data coming out of the swing states shows anomalies that cannot occur naturally.  (You can see all the known evidence here.)  These facts made Powell's contentions sound credible.

On Thursday and Friday, there was a public spat between Tucker Carlson and Powell.  Carlson claimed that Powell had no evidence and got nasty when he pushed; Powell asserted that she offered evidence, but Tucker got nasty because it wasn't when he wanted.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

2 comments:

thelastenglishprince said...

The enemy in our own camp. Of course they hate Trump - he has effected their financial bottom line with his policies?

The run-off in Georgia. I hope the Democrat wins. At this point, I am not interested in anything the Republicans have to tell us. Throw in the Democrats.

They are a ruling class, which was never intended by the Founders of our Constitution.

Anonymous said...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8976975/Watergate-reporter-Carl-Bernstein-lists-21-GOP-senators.html