Trump floated naming Sidney Powell as special counsel for election fraud investigation: reports

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According to two sources briefed on the discussion, most of his advisers opposed the idea of the appointment including the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, according to the Times. 

Powell herself was in attendance at the meeting, as well as former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to a senior administration official, Politico reported. 

Powell had previously defended Flynn during a probe by the FBI earlier in Trump's tenure as president. 

The meeting reportedly devolved into yelling and screaming, according to the senior official and the lawyers were accusing each other of not putting in enough effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Both Flynn and Powell reportedly claimed the administration was not working hard enough to reverse Trump's loss.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/531017-trump-floats-naming-former-campaign-attorney-sidney-powell-as-special

[moxy 1,051]

All the best people.

[laylalex 7,284]

2 minutes ago, moxy said:

All the best people.

I don't know if the image of Trump and the Kraken and Rudy screaming at borderline sane people or the image of the Supreme Court justices supposedly screaming at each other cracks me up more. One is more likely to have happened, of course.  

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

I have heard this in a few other places but it is really looking like that Trump has no plan on leaving at all. 

[moxy 1,051]

7 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I have heard this in a few other places but it is really looking like that Trump has no plan on leaving at all. 

He’ll leave. He’s too much of a coward at heart to actually go through with hunkering down behind his wee desk. Mind you, I’d pay money to see it all play out—like new Playstation money—but as usual he’ll disappoint.

 

Edited December 20, 2020 by moxy

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19 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I have heard this in a few other places but it is really looking like that Trump has no plan on leaving at all. 

Is he going to stay in the Whitehouse forever? No golf? No trips to maramagic?

[laylalex 7,284]

23 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Is he going to stay in the Whitehouse forever? No golf? No trips to maramagic?

I thought he thought it was a dump??

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7 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I thought he thought it was a dump??

Maybe we can offer the rename the Lincoln bedroom as the Trump bedroom

[laylalex 7,284]

1 minute ago, CanAm1980 said:

Maybe we can offer the rename the Lincoln bedroom as the Trump bedroom

Isn't it bad enough that it's haunted? (Supposedly.)

[moxy 1,051]

8 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Maybe we can offer the rename the Lincoln bedroom as the Trump bedroom

Ew

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 hour ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I have heard this in a few other places but it is really looking like that Trump has no plan on leaving at all. 

 

  He's leaving regardless. It doesn't really require a plan.

[laylalex 7,284]

8 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  He's leaving regardless. It doesn't really require a plan.

Well, maybe not a plan for him. 

 

I do wonder, sometimes, if it is just an elaborate attempt to make this like a cliffhanger. "On the shocking season finale of The American President: Will he? Won't he? Donald Trump never gives anything away willingly, and that includes the Oval Office. A nation waits to know the answer."

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16 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Well, maybe not a plan for him. 

 

I do wonder, sometimes, if it is just an elaborate attempt to make this like a cliffhanger. "On the shocking season finale of The American President: Will he? Won't he? Donald Trump never gives anything away willingly, and that includes the Oval Office. A nation waits to know the answer."

Produced by Mark Burnett. 

 

 

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

Kraken deposed will be interesting....

 

(CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign legal team sent a memo to dozens of staffers Saturday instructing them to preserve all documents related to Dominion Voting Systems and Sidney Powell in anticipation of potential litigation by the company against the pro-Trump attorney.

The memo, viewed by CNN, references a letter Dominion sent to Powell this week demanding she publicly retract her accusations and instructs campaign staff not to alter, destroy or discard records that could be relevant.

A serious internal divide has formed within Trump's campaign following the election with tensions at their highest between the campaign's general counsel, Matt Morgan, who sent the memo Saturday, and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Though the campaign once distanced itself from Powell, Trump has been urging other people to fight like she has, according to multiple people familiar with his remarks. He has asked for more people making her arguments, which are often baseless and filled with conspiracy theories, on television.

 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/12/19/politics/trump-campaign-sidney-powell-dominion-voting-systems/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

 

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“There are lots of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software,” Dobbs told his viewers before introducing Edward Perez, an expert with the nonprofit Open Source Election Technology Institute, to give “his assessment of Smartmatic and recent claims about the company.”

Perez then appeared in an apparently pretaped segment, where he shot down various conspiracy theories in response to questions from an off-camera, unidentified voice — not Dobbs’s.

The segment, it turns out, was in response to a 20-page legal demand letter that was sent this month by Smartmatic to Fox News Media. Similar letters went to Fox’s smaller competitors on the right, Newsmax and One America News. The letters demanded “a full and complete retraction of all false and defamatory statements and reports” aired by the network in its coverage of the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Specifically, the company charged: “Fox News has engaged in a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic. Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by [the late Venezuelan President] Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U.S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes.”

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Fox News confirmed to The Washington Post on Saturday that the fact-checking segment seen on Dobbs’s show Friday night will also air on “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” hosted on Saturday night by Jeanine Pirro and “Sunday Morning Futures,” hosted on Sunday morning by Maria Bartiromo, the shows mentioned in the demand letter. (Smartmatic had demanded that the corrections “must be published on multiple occasions” and must be made during prime-time shows, so as to “match the attention and audience targeted with the original defamatory publications.”)

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/12/19/lou-dobbs-debunk-fact-check-smartmatic/

 

What I get out of reading that is that Fox News realizes that it is in for a world of pain if it doesn't retract "opinions" that aren't based on facts.