Sidney Powell extols GA and MI election lawsuit after Trump dumps her

• Sidney Powell, the lawyer who previously worked with President Donald Trump’s campaign, released legal documents on Wednesday challenging election results in Georgia and Michigan.
• Business Insider found that the Michigan lawsuit had been filed in federal court but could not verify the status of the Georgia one.
• Powell was kicked out of Trump’s legal team after making outlandish claims that a large Communist conspiracy was responsible for stealing the election from Trump.
• His legal documents repeat many of his claims, including Chinese and Iranian interference and digital voting change by machines linked to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Many of these claims have been debunked.
• One of the lawsuits misspelled words like “district”, and both had numerous typos.
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Sidney Powell continued “massive electoral fraud” prosecutions in Georgia and Michigan, even after President Donald Trump’s legal team publicly dumped her.

Powell, a lawyer who was fired as a conspiracy theorist, posted the lawsuits on his website at midnight Wednesday and announced them in a tweet using his tagline “The #Kraken Just Released.”

As of Thursday morning, the tweet appeared to have been deleted, but the documents remained on Powell’s website.

Business Insider verified that the Michigan lawsuit had been filed in federal court, but could not verify the status of the lawsuit in Georgia, which made many of the same claims.

The lawsuits are dozens of pages long and contain several misspellings and typos, including “Districct Court” and “Distrcoict of Georgia” in one.

The documents repeat many of the baseless allegations Powell made at a press conference with Rudy Giuliani on Nov. 19, while she was still on the Trump campaign’s legal team.

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Days later, the Trump campaign disowned her, saying in a statement that she “practiced law on her own.”

An anonymous Trump adviser told New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that Powell’s ideas were “too conspiratorial even for him.”

In the lawsuits, Powell accuses the voting machines used in Georgia and Michigan of transferring the votes to Joe Biden and that they were designed to ensure that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, wins his election. These allegations have been debunked, according to CNN.

Quoting Andrew Appel, a Princeton scholar who highlighted vulnerabilities in voting machines, Powell said the machines were designed to swap votes in an undetectable way.

But Appel – whose comments were published long before the 2020 election – dismissed the idea that the software was part of a conspiracy, noting earlier this month that “the vulnerabilities are not the same as an election. rigged”.

Michigan has paper ballots that can be recounted by hand, Appel said. Georgia, which uses touch-screen ballot scoring machines, still has vulnerabilities, but “hacks and problems” have been detected and fixed, “he said.

Powell’s lawsuits allege the software “was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate the election.”

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Powell has previously refused to provide evidence for his allegations at the behest of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has been open to numerous allegations of Trump’s election fraud.

In an unusual segment on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Friday, Carlson called Powell for refusing to provide evidence, saying he would have given her “all the time” if she had.

The segment sparked a right-wing backlash against Carlson that calmed down after Trump’s legal team moved away from Powell.

In Michigan, Powell’s lawsuit is against officials including Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor who was targeted in a right-wing kidnapping plot in October.

In Georgia, Powell’s lawsuit targets Republican Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, among other officials.

Raffensperger, who said his family voted for Trump, recently wrote an opinion column defending his state’s election management and claiming that Trump threw him “under the bus.”