By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER
A few days ago, Sidney Powell said the Trump team would release the Kraken (a mythical giant squid that shatters sailing ships) against the election results that claim that Biden won. On Sunday, Powell spelled out what this Trump Kraken looks like — and she vouches for its existence. Based on the details she imparted, the Biden dinghy (for it’s certainly not a ship of state) isn’t just going to take on water; it’s going to a long deserved rendezvous with Davy Jones’s locker.
Powell, who has been working to save General Flynn from the morass his first attorneys, who were compromised, led him into, is now part of President Trump’s post-election team. On Friday, she appeared on the Lou Dobbs show and memorably said, “I’m going to release the Kraken.”
The problem is that we Trump-supporters have been hearing many promises to expose election fraud. And yes, there has been a lot of fraud shown: in myriad jurisdictions, people are testifying about absentee ballot dumps, banned poll-watchers, cemetery votes, etc. But there’s always been the worry that these actions, while true, may not convince a judge (or nine justices) to overturn the election.
Then word started leaking out that statistics could prove that the enormous Biden surges after the polls shut down were statistical impossibilities. American Thinker authors have written about some of those problems before, so I won’t rehash them. If you’re curious, you can find some examples here, here, here, here, and here, all of which are written in easy-to-understand English rather than statistician or programmer English. Nevertheless, it was not entirely clear that the Trump team understood the immensity of what happened.
On Sunday morning, however, Sidney Powell appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s show and revealed that the Trump team understands exactly what happened. The statistical analyses are right on the money, and Powell claims she has detailed evidence about the people who committed election fraud and how they did it. According to her, the evidence is ready to be shown before the certification date, and it may mandate an entirely new election — only one without fraud.
The culprits are Dominion Voting Systems, which makes election software, and Smartmatic, which makes the voting machines on which the software runs. Neither company is American, so our elections are being run through Europe, not America.
You’ve already heard a lot about problems with Dominion. It’s so unreliable that Texas refused to certify it, and there may be evidence that one of Dominion’s vice presidents is a Trump-hater and Antifa-supporter.
Meanwhile, over at Smartmatic, which three Venezuelan engineers created, there are all sorts of questionable connections. First, the company is incredibly cagey about its overseas ownership — and it may still be tied to Venezuela (that would be Maduro’s Venezuela). In 2014, Smartmatic became a subsidiary of SGO Corp. Ltd., a London-based holding company, with Lord Mark Malloch-Brown as chairman of the board. Brown, who came up through the British Labor Party’s ranks, has close ties to George Soros.
There are also questions about Peter Neffenger, chairman of the Board at Smartmatic. He’s a retired admiral who worked as the head of the TSA under Obama. Since the election, Neffenger has joined the Biden transition team! Yes, the man from the company whose computers were at the heart of fraud allegations in the allegation is helping Biden move into the White House.
Powell alleges that these companies designed the software and machinery specifically to support voter fraud, that they’re in league with corrupt American politicians, and that they switched hundreds of thousands, even millions, of votes away from Trump in the various contested states (and, one assumes, in others as well). Moreover, Powell says she has firsthand testimony about the fraud and that there’s a veritable “fire hose” of corroborative evidence coming in.
The most crucial line in the entire interview (I think) is what Powell said what Bartiromo asked if she could prove any of this: “I never say anything I can’t prove.”
Here’s the interview, and you’ll want to hear every word:
Additionally, after the interview, Powell tweeted that Trump has given her team the go-ahead to expose the fraud:
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To be clear: #WeThePeople elected @realDonaldTrump in a #LANDSLIDE.
WE decide that he stays in office. He’s conceding nothing. WE KNOW there was massive #ElectionFraud. MASSIVE
Not only has
.@POTUS ordered to #ReleaseTheKracken #WeThePeople DEMAND IT.
We are #FedUp@RudyGiuliani pic.twitter.com/bgIECGxlIJ— Sidney Powell ????? (@SidneyPowell1) November 15, 2020
Do you hear the sound of Biden and Co. running for the lifeboats? I’d like to think I do.
I have been studying the text of the Election Law governing the election of the president, as it was most recently revised in 1948. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/1, and subsequent entries). The election law provides several grounds for disqualifying the electors in states where fraud or other violations of state election law have occurred. It provides that the electors must be “appointed” on election day, unless state law specifically provides for court challenges and reviews of the election results. However, if these court challenges or other “due process” proceedings are not resolved by six days before the day when the electors are scheduled by Federal law to meet and cast their votes, then the electors are disqualified and the state’s electoral votes should not be counted by the Vice President, presiding over a joint session of Congress. However, there is a contradiction in this law, in that it also says that the Congress should accept a signed declaration by the Governor of the state that the slate of electors he certifies have been chosen in complete accordance with the laws of the state. Congress can then overturn the governor’s declaration, but only if both houses of Congress agree to do so.
The very complicated rules for debating each challenge to the governor’s declations allow the congressmen and Senators to debate the certified results for up to two hours before voting on the issue can last up to two hours , with each member of both houses allowed five minutes to speak. All challenges to the electors from every state must be voted on within 24 hours, and the Congress must remain in continuous session, with only very brief breaks allowed. If the President persists in contesting the election, this could make for an incredibly dramatic joint meeing of the two houses.
I think it is imperative that the Supreme court hold a session in which it advises the Congress as to the meaning of each point in very complex, convoluted and ambiguous election law. It should then send its guidance to every congressperson and Senator. The court has the right to make advisory as well as mandatory rulings, and frequently does so. It cannot dictate to Congress what electoral slates it will approve. But it can “declare what the law is” to guide them in their choices.
If Trump persists in fighting this election, and adopts the right strategy, he has a good chance of prevailing before January 20 (Inauguration Day). But only if he and his team make a direct appeal to the Supreme Court to clarify the law and advise Congress and the state governments how tocomply with it. Without a definitive interpreation by the u.S. Supreme Court, I don’t think Biden’s purported election can be overturned.