Watch Trump’s former lawyer, Sidney Powell, try and justify ‘stolen election’ claims | Four Corners

Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump’s former lawyer, Sidney Powell, accused election technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic of rigging the election.

Donald Trump declared the vote was a “major fraud on the American people”.

Rather than face defeat, he and his allies began a campaign claiming the election had been stolen.

This conspiracy theory was then peddled by a number of high-profile Fox News anchors.

Now, Fox News and three of its stars are facing $4.3 billion in lawsuits from two voting technology companies.

Four Corners reporter Sarah Ferguson interviewed Sidney Powell and asked her to justify her claims.

How will MAGA and QANON supporters react to the revelation that Sidney Powell has admitted to lying about voter fraud?

 

The interesting things about the Kraken story are:

  • it emerged, fully formed and with amazingly specific detail
  • but with not a speck of evidence
  • and with no suggestion of how and from where the story had emerged.

Additionally, the “Kraken” was not “unleashed” until the less outrageous myths (dead people, forged ballots, dumped ballots etc) had been thoroughly discredited.

I would suggest that the Kraken claim (which actually has no connection to any specifics of the election) had been developed months, even years earlier and kept in that glass-fronted cabinet labeled “In case of emergency, break glass”.

While the theory was outrageous and completely unprovable, it had one attractive feature – it could in a single stroke explain millions of “fake votes” in dozens of states.

In short, it was the final, desperate “Hail Mary” play.