Far-right lawyer Sidney Powell rose to national infamy for spreading the delusion that the 2020 election was "stolen" from former President Donald Trump by Democrats engaging in widespread voter fraud.
Powell long claimed that elections software companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic conspired together to secure a victory for the long-dead Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, algorithmically perfecting technology that could sway an election to a predetermined candidate.
Dominion is not linked to Venezeula, nor has it ever partnered with Smartmatic. As for Smartmatic, the company actually exposed the Venezuelan government's lies about stratospheric election turnout in Venezuela in 2017, using its own election software data to do so.
The companies have sued Powell for defamation to the tune of billions of dollars. Powell's defense has argued that "no reasonable person" would believe her claims, and that she never stated them as fact (she did).
Now, Powell's conspiracy web has enlisted a new culprit: U.S. Military.
Watch below.
Sidney Powell, one of the attorneys who worked on Trump\u2019s election team, now claims that the military and US intelligence services stole the 2020 election.pic.twitter.com/vybBzpYUq8— The Republican Accountability Project (@The Republican Accountability Project) 1632913200
In an interview for an obscure conspiracy webcast, Powell said:
"For at least 20 years now, somebody other than the voters of the United States of America has been determining certain elections ... The Department of Defense knows damn well about it also, because they patented the process for real time monitoring of the election and doing exactly the same things back in 2005, and the government has an interest in a patent that allows for the predetermination of election results."
When asked by the host to confirm that "the Military, the Department of Defense holds this particular patent," Powell responded:
"Yes. Well, the government has an interest in these patents."
Powell was once again spewing deranged conspiracies.
Sidney Powell should lose her law license for repeatedly lying to courts. She is also bonkers and an embarrassment to the legal profession.https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— Ted Lieu (@Ted Lieu) 1632932487
At some point people in US are going to have to come to grips with notion that political agenda/dialogue has abandoned normalcy. It's solely driven by #Republican ideological pursuit of power, period. No governing ideals, just raw power pursuit. US democratic experiment is over.https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— Chemical Thoughts (@Chemical Thoughts) 1632934867
Quite literally... UNBELIEVABLEhttps://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— Sylvia Vaxxed & Relaxed \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udd4a\u270d (@Sylvia Vaxxed & Relaxed \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udd4a\u270d) 1632929901
She\u2019s full of crap.https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— Hari Seldon (@Hari Seldon) 1632929416
As someone who served in the intel community & w/ the military-I find this not only -but extremely offensive. Par for the course when it comes to Trumpists. These communities have become their go-to for conspiracies & attacks.https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— Olivia of Troye (@Olivia of Troye) 1632929149
People are growing weary of Powell's claims and the lack of consequences she's faced.
They\u2019re all like a really repugnant broken and warped record.https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— Desert09 (@Desert09) 1632926162
The only reason they continue to say this stuff is because there are ZERO consequences for it.https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— Hurricane Jameis (@Hurricane Jameis) 1632927727
Why is she allowed in a courtroom? Take her law license awayhttps://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1443168680460754948\u00a0\u2026— @richriker (@@richriker) 1632925996
Powell is fully expected to continue eroding public faith in democracy.
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