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Trump wanted to name Sidney Powell as special counsel to probe 2020 election: court papers
NYPost ^ | 08/18/2022 | Mark Moore

Posted on 08/18/2022 2:21:15 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former President Donald Trump wanted to name Sidney Powell as the special counsel to investigate the presidential race, the former CEO of Overstock.com said in a court filing Thursday.

Powell, a lawyer who helped Trump’s attempt to find fraud in the 2020 election, was in the Oval Office in December 2020 along with former Gen. Michael Flynn and Overstock’s Patrick Byrne to discuss the outlandish election claims, according to court papers filed in the Southern District of Florida.

During the meeting, Trump and Powell discussed alleged FBI reports of “foreign interference” in the election involving SolarWinds and the hacking of cloud providers and tech companies.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2020; counsel; pdjt; powell; sidneypowell; trump
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I was never a fan of powell with the cracken talk.
1 posted on 08/18/2022 2:21:15 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Powell and Wood need to go away forever.

Trump should let someone else, not Javanka, make personnel decisions.
He is truly terrible at that.


2 posted on 08/18/2022 2:23:45 PM PDT by EEGator
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deserves credit for helping flynn

i still dont understand some of the stuff she was saying in the aftermath of the election

was somebody feeding her nonsense to discredit her?

i would not put it past the deep state


3 posted on 08/18/2022 2:25:10 PM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope to see Sidney again very soon. I hope these government thugs don’t ruin her......they’re trying. I hope people wake up to see the government destroying everything this country was built on, mainly the rule of law!!


4 posted on 08/18/2022 2:25:11 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is it illegal to contest an election? Isn’t that what Stacey Abrams did? Or is it only illegal if you’re a Republican?


5 posted on 08/18/2022 2:29:42 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She was great in defending Flynn. Do you for a minute doubt the kraken fraud and proof was there? I don’t. What the backstabbing wings of the Uniparty and the government/media axis did destroyed her and the kraken. You can’t fault her. I can count on one hand the number of our “elected conservatives” who did as much as she did in trying to save Trump and the Constitution. Why on earth, didn’t Trump fire Barr and appoint a non confirmation needed Acting AG. That acting AG appoints a real IC and maybe the coup doesn’t work.


6 posted on 08/18/2022 2:33:59 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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Matt Whittaker.


7 posted on 08/18/2022 2:35:33 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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Or is it only illegal if you’re a Republican?

Yes. That's it.

8 posted on 08/18/2022 2:39:16 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: joshua c

I can’t believe how much garbage grifter radio had some of us swallowing. “Biden was never in the WH.” “The military will take charge.” “Elections will all be made right.” “We got them all.” All hooey from that damnable Q crap.


9 posted on 08/18/2022 2:40:40 PM PDT by Luke21
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+10


10 posted on 08/18/2022 2:40:54 PM PDT by frog in a pot (The water in this pot is getting warmer. You are in it as well, what do you think?)
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+10


11 posted on 08/18/2022 2:41:15 PM PDT by frog in a pot (The water in this pot is getting warmer. You are in it as well, what do you think?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think she’s great!


12 posted on 08/18/2022 2:42:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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"I hope people wake up to see the government destroying everything this country was built on, mainly the rule of law!!"

Some people on this site seem to forget that the media, and the deep state are the enemy here, and have gone after anyone even slightly associated with Donald Trump, trying to make them all look like dingbats and criminals in one way or another. It's the old "nuts and sluts" routine, but with a twist. When they easily disparage people like Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, they are the useful idiots of the main stream media, Democrats, and the deep state.

13 posted on 08/18/2022 2:49:03 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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No, they were feeding you stuff in hopes that you would react just as you have.


14 posted on 08/18/2022 2:55:19 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Powell and her team is are still defending many of those wronged by the deep state, including many J6 people rotting away in jail.


15 posted on 08/18/2022 2:56:48 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Dawgreg

They are trying to ruin her and her team still.


16 posted on 08/18/2022 2:58:21 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“outlandish election claims”

Notice that they say this WITHOUT EVIDENCE


17 posted on 08/18/2022 3:05:35 PM PDT by dmet
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All
Fake news headline: No, Sidney Powell was appointed special counsel to probe the 2020 election:
About a half-hour later after the continued debate, Trump turned to the White House counsel. “You know​,​ Pat? A few minutes​ ​ago you said that I can make it happen just by saying it. Well …. OK. I have decided,​ ​now I’m saying it. ‘Sidney Powell is hereby appointed as White House Special Counsel​,'” the former CEO quoted Trump. ​ The then-President Trump told the White House lawyers: “I grant Sidney Powell a Top Secret security clearance.”​ At that point, the White House counsels stormed out of the Oval Office.

There is no record that she was ever fired either. She just never got an office or the docs and ID to do the job.
18 posted on 08/18/2022 3:10:00 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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I hope to see her again too. There were several people who could have helped substantiate some of the theories revealed by Sidney, and also spun by Lin Wood. But those people are either dead or scared into oblivion because they know they don’t matter. In life, we clearly don’t get to choose who is really telling the truth. Someone could be a thief, a bum in the streets, a prostitute….but still know the truth. The story goes Jesus listened to all of them and was hurt by those who lied.
In this case, these were educated people who were jumping up and down from knowing. They wanted everyone to see the country burning before it burned. And here we are. Our president is probably gonna be indicted….and those who pointed, like the young girl who said Trump tried to grab the wheel of the Beast?


19 posted on 08/18/2022 3:14:41 PM PDT by FryingPan101 (God bless you, Jim.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then he should have had it done, waiting on deep state cronies to fix anything is leading to the destruction of the Republic. Releasing the Kraken depended on an honest court and we don’t have one any more.


20 posted on 08/18/2022 3:27:21 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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