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2020-11-23 Home Front: Politix
Trump Campaign Disowns Sidney Powell
[RedState]
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-11-23 08:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Told Ja
Posted by Pliny Elmineling2878 2020-11-23 10:12||   2020-11-23 10:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Any time I see the phrase "sources close the President", I call shenanigans.
Posted by SteveS 2020-11-23 10:17||   2020-11-23 10:17|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, so we're supposed to just roll over and accept as valid an election that nobody in this country would have certified had such a clownshow occurred in a third world shithole or corrupt former Soviet Republic?

How are we supposed to play the role of loyal opposition to a demented lying senile Chinese puppet whose people just stole an election with millions of obviously fraudulent absentee ballots?

Loyal to what -- China? Hunter Biden's Crack Fund?
Posted by Titus Dribble3987 2020-11-23 10:31||   2020-11-23 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 24 Hour Rule.

American Thinker has an analysis here, which has Ms Powell’s tweeted response:



And a “parlayed” response from Michael Flynn, Jr. on Parler explaining that she agrees with the Tump announcement and suggests this is as much about getting around limits on donations if there are two entities instead of just the Trump one.

Finally, Lin Wood, esq. is sanguine:

Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-23 11:28||   2020-11-23 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 *sigh* Ran into Fred’s two link per comment limit that controls spammers in the Burg.

Here’s the American Thinker link
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-23 11:32||   2020-11-23 11:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Sydney and Guiliani are two hard headed prosecutors who really do not compromise each other on strategy and tactics. Clearly a divorce occured and they decided to move forward prosecuting election fraud separately.

They are now competing with each other on this Dim fraud hunt mission.
Posted by Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-23 11:45||   2020-11-23 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm not sure a divorce occurred or if they were ever truly on the same team. My understanding is Sidney Powell was never on Trump's payroll but he referred to her as part of the team which could be taken literal or not.

I think a lot of what has been going on has been designed to move the Overton window so that more and more people are willing to accept the concept the election was stolen so that they won't knee-jerk reject whatever evidence she presents which is one reason they've taken their time despite the limited window of opportunity. This will also help in later efforts to clean up the voting system nationally.

I also think it could be seen as advantageous for Trump to separate from the momentous overturn of the election she's talking about so it doesn't look like a coup.

I hope she really has some real, convincing, proof.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-23 12:22||   2020-11-23 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm hoping she has. really, really, good security detail. I can already see the Headlines:

"Sidney Powell, disapondent from being kicked of the Trump team as reported here earlier, committed Suicide earlier today..."
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-11-23 12:44||   2020-11-23 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 #8; yeah, she shot herself three times in the back of the head, just to make sure.
Posted by Sheba Protector of the Hohlraums47 2020-11-23 13:17||   2020-11-23 13:17|| Front Page Top

#10 It'd called arguing in the alternative. Common legal strategy. Think of it as something like "I wasn't there, I didn't do it, I'm sorry and it will never happen again."
Posted by Iblis 2020-11-23 13:29||   2020-11-23 13:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Word this afternoon is 1) she and Guiliani clashed the last few days. 2) Trump did not like the spat between her and Tucker.
Posted by Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-23 16:53||   2020-11-23 16:53|| Front Page Top

#12 But Trumps loooooves Bill Barr. Yep, he's a keeper. Or, perhaps it is like in The Godfather: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Posted by Clem 2020-11-23 17:10||   2020-11-23 17:10|| Front Page Top

#13  There may be a Long Game going on. Overturning a federal election is rather hard to do, particularly with the widespread collusion of 1000s or 100000s of TDS unindicted co-conspirators including the media. The loss of faith in the system by Trump supporters (about half of the electorate give or take) is a massive problem (or is it an opportunity?) for the immediate future. Even if Trump knows he will likely not succeed in his legal challenge, he is doing a service to his supporters and to his country by putting up a fight.
Posted by Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-23 18:01||   2020-11-23 18:01|| Front Page Top

#14 GSA says Game Over
Trump signals he's tossing in the towel.
Posted by Pliny Glise9715 2020-11-23 18:25||   2020-11-23 18:25|| Front Page Top

#15 we be Venezuela now
Posted by Wholuper Spick5428 2020-11-23 18:45||   2020-11-23 18:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Trump didn't exactly throw in the towel, he just acknowledged the transition person should speak with Biden but said he'd keep fighting.

At some point you have to acknowledge the chance that the courts will go against you and also calm fears your gonna stay on as a dictator. If he wins out any transition preparation with Biden can be ignored.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-23 19:11||   2020-11-23 19:11|| Front Page Top

#17 Every crime has a break in the case as long as people are determined to bring justice for the voters.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-11-23 21:27||   2020-11-23 21:27|| Front Page Top

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