Is there trouble within the MAGA team?
According to mainstream media reporting, the Trump campaign legal team cut ties with attorney Sidney Powell on Sunday evening as it continues its fight to reverse what it claims was a fraudulent win by Joe Biden.
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own,” Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis said in the statement. “She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.”
In a response statement obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Powell said: “I agree with the statement today. I will represent #WeThePeople and seek the Truth. I intend to expose all the fraud and let the chips fall where they may. We will not allow the foundations of this great Republic to be destroyed by abject fraud.”
Powell, who defended General Michael Flynn in United States v. Flynn, has claimed that votes were switched from Biden to Trump using Dominion Voting’s software and that foreign actors such as Venezuela were involved.
“The Dominion voting systems, the Smartmatic technology software and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out,” Powell said in a press conference alongside Giuliani and Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis last week.
“We have one very strong witness who has explained how it all works. His affidavit is attached to the pleadings of Lin Wood in the lawsuit he filed in Georgia. It is a stunning, detailed affidavit because he was with Hugo Chavez while … he was being briefed on how it worked, he was with Hugo Chavez when he saw it operate to make sure the election came out his way. That was the express purpose for creating this software. He has seen it operate and as soon as he saw the multiple states shut down the voting on the night of the election, he knew the same thing was happening here, that that was what had gone on.”
Powell has accused election officials in multiple states of committing crimes, and in recent days turned on Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, who on Friday helped certify Joe Biden’s victory in the state. She promised that the president’s team will soon “release the kraken” of evidence.
But her remarks against Kemp particularly earned her pushback from establishment Republicans.
“Sidney Powell accusing Governor Brian Kemp of a crime on television yet being unwilling to go on TV and defend and lay out the evidence that she supposedly has, this is outrageous conduct,” former Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Sunday.
President Trump had previously touted Powell’s presence on the legal team leading the charge on the voter fraud issue.
So what is actually going on? Did the Trump team give Powell the boot because they felt she made outrageous, unsubstantiated claims? While the mainstream media is sure making it look that way, the truth may be a bit more nuanced.
It appears that Powell is not officially part of Trump’s legal team, though she is helping uncover the fraud in the election, which, in effect, is helping Trump. This situation likely has to do with finances more than anything else, as pointed out by American Thinker.
Michael Flynn, Jr., the son of former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn, posted on Parler Sunday, “Sidney Powell has been suspended from Twitter for twelve hours. She understands the WH press release and agrees with it today. She is staying the course to prove the massive deliberate fraud that robbed #WeThePeople of our votes for President Trump and many other Republican candidates.”
Flynn, Jr. followed this with another Parler message: “Cannot confirm yet but I’m confident this has to do w money coming in for legal defense fund sppt. @SidneyPowell has her own separate entity 4 legal donations that isn’t in conjunction w the Trump legal team. Frees SP 2 do her own thing…which will STILL b biblical.”
He added later: “Can confirm this parlay… @SidneyPowell is free to focus and not be tied to having to vett everything through the campaign.”
Attorney L. Lin Wood of Nicholas Sandmann and Kyle Rittenhouse fame chimed in as well on Twitter:
So it appears the media hype about a contentious fracture within the Trump legal team may be much ado about nothing. What should be the focus of our attention is the legal battle itself, and the issue of vote fraud enabled by Dominion software in particular.
Although the mainstream media continues to downplay and ridicule Powell’s claims, or, for that matter, any spotlight on Dominion and its ties, a close look at the company raises concerns about its role in handling American elections.
Smartmatic, a multinational developer of election technology, recently denied owning Dominion Voting Systems and ever providing Dominion with technology.
However, even Wikipedia acknowledges that Sequoia Voting Systems, one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in America, was formerly owned by Smartmatic and the latter still owns interests in the former. Sequoia was acquired by Dominion in 2010.
Moreover, Smartmatic Chairman Mark Malloch Brown admitted that there was a license agreement Between Smartmatic and Dominion under which the latter provided technology to the former.
The Gateway Pundit notes:
Mark Malloch Brown: Yes, well I think that’s competitors who say that. The fact is, yes a part of our technology IS licensed from Dominion. But you tell me a large technology company which isn’t using in part licenses from other companies. And we have a license for the international use of that particular piece of the technology.
Reporter: So Mark let me just cut in there and ask you, the license issued by Dominion for you to use for proprietary software, that is a live license for you to use?
Mark Malloch Brown: Yes.
Considering these voting technology firms are lying about their ties to another, the logical question: What else are they lying about?
