Sidney Powell's Got A Really Bad Idea

And Howard Kleinhendler can make it worse!

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On Tuesday, the January 6 Select Committee issued subpoenas to multiple Trumpland lawyers, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.

“The Select Committee’s investigation has revealed credible evidence that you publicly promoted claims that the 2020 election was stolen and participated in attempts to disrupt or delay the certification of the election results based on your allegations,” the Committee wrote in a letter to the infamous Kraken lawyer. Which doesn’t speak much for their investigative skills, since Powell spent much of November, December, and January on television airing her theories about vote flipping by dastardly Venezuelans via Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines, and is now facing billions of dollars in defamation lawsuits for her troubles.

Plus there were all those doomed Kraken lawsuits, littering federal and state courtrooms like rotting mollusk carcasses. The Michigan one was so rank that it netted her and her trusty sidekicks, including attorney Howard Kleinhendler, blistering sanctions for depositing such an atrocity on the federal docket.

The Committee refers to similar lapses of judgment, such as reporting by Axios that she “urged President Trump to direct the seizure of voting machines around the country to find evidence that foreign adversaries had hacked those machines and altered the results of the election.”

It doesn’t mention reporting by ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Powell believed an internet hoax that CIA Director Gina Haspel had been wounded in Germany trying to hide evidence of vote tampering in the US election, so she called up a Pentagon official and urged him to go arrest Haspel and seize the incriminating server. (Presumably the server containing manipulated German votes is hidden in Sheboygan, or possibly San Clemente.)

Suffice it to say, Powell has some very bad ideas. And yet, even we were surprised to see that she is willing, even eager to appear before the January 6 Committee.

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From the website of Defending the Republic, her non-profit, which paid a fine in Florida for failing to comply with fundraising laws and was recently subpoenaed by a grand jury in DC in connection to the events leading up to the Capitol Riot:

Ms. Powell has received the January 6 Committee’s subpoena, and she looks forward to providing the Committee with significant evidence in support of the election fraud statements and claims she presented on behalf of the electors and clients she represented. Those claims are supported by expert reports and affidavits of witnesses that no court took the time to hear. Ms. Powell is a practicing lawyer, and she will comply to the full extent required by law and legal ethics.

Ms. Powell looks forward to appearing before the Committee to answer questions, walk through the evidence, and present a full picture of the fraud and other misconduct that took place during the 2020 Election, including the myriad of election fraud allegations only now being examined by state officials in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

-Statement on behalf of Sidney Powell–From Howard Kleinhendler, Counsel for Sidney Powell

It’s a two-fer! Not only will the Committee get to hear from Powell, but her fellow sanctions traveler Howard Kleinhendler will be along for the ride. It only makes sense, after he did such an incredible job suing Major League Baseball for moving the All Star Game out of Atlanta.

Powell appears to think she’s going to use the hearing to show, once and for all, that her widely debunked election claims are FULLY BUNKED. That it is more likely that she proves the election was stolen than that she makes a lot of incendiary allegations that immediately show up as evidence in Dominion and Smartmatic’s defamation suits.

Luckily, Powell has an excellent track record dominating her interrogators. She’ll really show those congressmen what’s what!

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Ah well, nevertheless.


Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.