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2021-07-12 at 4:46 PM UTC
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2021-07-12 at 4:55 PM UTCReuters
Judge blasts ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell over lawsuit to overturn U.S. election
By Jan Wolfe and David Thomas
A U.S. judge on Monday appeared likely to reprimand Sidney Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Donald Trump, and other attorneys over a lawsuit they filed in Michigan seeking to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory.
U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit suggested the pro-Trump lawyers should have investigated the Republican former president's voter fraud claims more carefully before suing.
"Should an attorney be sanctioned for his or her failure to withdraw allegations the attorney came to know were untrue?," Parker said during a court hearing held by video conference. "Is that sanctionable behavior?"
She said she thought affidavits in the case had been submitted in "bad faith."
Parker held the hearing to determine whether Powell, Lin Wood and other pro-Trump lawyers should be disciplined for a lawsuit they filed last November that made baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the U.S. presidential election in Michigan.
They are not the only lawyers allied with Trump to land in hot water for supporting his false claims that his election defeat was the result of fraud. New York state and Washington, D.C, in recent weeks suspended https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rudolph-giuliani-is-suspended-law-practice-new-york-state-2021-06-24 former New York Mayor and Trump confidant Rudy Giuliani's law license after finding he lied in supporting Trump's claims.
Parker dismissed the Michigan lawsuit last December, saying in a written decision that Powell's voter fraud claims were "nothing but speculation and conjecture" and that, in any event, Powell waited too long to file her lawsuit.
Parker did not rule in the hearing's initial hours whether she would impose judicial sanctions on Powell and her co-counsel, or refer them to a regulatory body for disbarment proceedings.
Starting in January, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and other government lawyers asked the judge to discipline the pro-Trump lawyers, saying they filed a frivolous lawsuit full of typos and factual errors and should be held accountable.
"What they filed was an embarrassment to the legal profession," David Fink, a lawyer for the city of Detroit said during Monday's hearing. "This was a sloppy and careless effort."
Powell represented Trump's campaign when he tried to overturn last Nov. 3's presidential election in the courts. Trump's campaign distanced itself from Powell after she claimed without evidence at a Nov. 19 news conference that electronic voting systems had switched millions of ballots to Biden.
Attorneys L. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell hold a press conference
On Nov. 25, a team of lawyers led by Powell filed a lawsuit on behalf of Michigan Republicans alleging rampant voter fraud. The also sought to have Trump named the winner of the Midwestern state's election, giving him Michigan's votes in the U.S. Electoral College which selects the winner of presidential races.
During the hearing, Parker asked Powell and her co-counsel why they did not voluntarily dismiss their Michigan case on Dec. 14 when the Electoral College formally confirmed Biden's election victory.
"Why did the plaintiffs not recognize this lawsuit as moot and dismiss it on that date?," Parker asked.
Donald Campbell, the attorney representing Sidney Powell and the other lawyers, replied that the election was "fluid" and unpredictable and that the pro-Trump legal team believed its lawsuit was still viable after Dec. 14. -
2021-07-12 at 5:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 SAY WHAT?
(You forgot the caps.)
I did, but i'm trying to get away from that because caps have meaning against my fight. I am working on being correct in my writings,
spelling as well as punctuation. My brain hurts just realizing how much crap I have to learn before I am able to fight smart corrupt
government people through affidavits.
You see, I am a King, and as a king I have a duty to oversee my trustees and make them accountable for their maladministration when
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2021-07-12 at 6:02 PM UTCA radical leftist and paid off/politized "judge" doesn't like the evidence. Who could have seen that coming?
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2021-07-12 at 6:22 PM UTCShyster, corrupt, lying Republican lawyers with total disregard for the country or the truth.
Who could have seen that coming? -
2021-07-12 at 6:35 PM UTC
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2021-07-12 at 6:36 PM UTCIt's ALL going to come out for the whole world to see for themselves, regardless of what you commies and your paid-off lapdogs think or want or demand, and that's a fact.
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2021-07-12 at 6:45 PM UTCYeah...onward with the January 6th investigation!
On with Trump's tax colonoscopy!
On with actual truth! -
2021-07-12 at 6:49 PM UTCOnce the Arizona theft comes out, all the other States will follow suit with forensic audits, creating a massive domino effect, which will lead to the discovery of massive election fraud across the country. There's no stopping it. It's all coming.
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2021-07-12 at 7:35 PM UTCCNN
Fact check: Untethered to reality, Trump lies over and over about the 2020 election at CPAC
By Daniel Dale
He's still repeating his favorite old lies, those eternal chestnuts about the size of the trade deficit with China and the legitimacy of the Russia investigation and how many immigrants show up for their court hearings.
But former President Donald Trump's current dishonesty is overwhelmingly focused on a single subject: the 2020 election he lost eight months ago but won't stop lying that he won.
In a rambling Sunday address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Trump returned again and again to election-related lies -- some of them detailed and wrong, most of them vague and wrong.
What can you even say about claims so disconnected from reality? Here's a brief fact check of eight of them.
Trump: "And we were doing so well until the rigged election happened to come along. We were doing really well."
The election was not rigged. Trump lost fair and square.
Trump: "Unfortunately, this was an election where the person that counts the votes was far more important than the candidate, no matter how many votes that candidate got -- and we got record numbers of votes."
Joe Biden was the candidate who earned a record number of votes: more than 81 million. Trump earned more than 74 million votes -- a record for a sitting president, but that's not what Trump said here.
Trump: "You know, the New York Times asked me a question: 'What happened in 2020 -- that was different from 2016.' I said, 'Well I'll tell you: we did much better in 2020 and we got 12 million more votes. We won by a much bigger margin."
Trump lost. Biden beat him by 74 votes in the Electoral College, 306 to 232, and by more than 7 million votes in the national popular vote.
Trump did receive about 11.2 million more votes than he did in 2016 -- side note: that doesn't round to "12 million" -- but Biden received about 15.4 million more votes than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton got in 2016.
Trump: "Every time the media references the election hoax. they say the fraud is: 'Unproven! And while there is no evidence...' No evidence? No evidence? There's so much evidence."
There was no election hoax. And while there were some scattered cases of fraud, including some by Trump supporters, there is indeed no evidence of widespread fraud or outcome-altering fraud -- as Republican elections officials in various states, Trump-appointed former Attorney General William Barr, and numerous others have pointed out.
Trump: "...the Justice Department, they failed to call out a late-night ballot stuffing that took place in Georgia, remember that? Where they made up a story of a water main break in order to get people and security to leave the premises. And then they went into a rampage of stuffing, essentially, the ballots."
There was no ballot "stuffing" at an elections facility in Georgia. While initial reports of a burst pipe or broken water main at State Farm Arena did turn out to be inaccurate -- the reality was that a urinal had overflowed -- Trump's claim that local elections workers proceeded to stuff the ballot box has been debunked by the office of Georgia's Republican elections chief, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Trump: "They deleted, Georgia, over 100,000 votes."
Didn't happen. Rather, Raffensperger announced in June that more than 100,000 names would be deleted from Georgia's voter registration rolls to keep the state's voter files "up to date," saying "there is no legitimate reason to keep ineligible voters on the rolls." That is not even close to the same thing as deleting actual votes.
Trump: "The drop boxes were off very late. 'Where are they? Where are they? What happened?' They're supposed to be -- they're not. I could tell you what happened. Sometimes late by days in showing up to the vote-counting areas."
There is no evidence that ballot drop boxes were delivered improperly late. There is no evidence for Trump's suggestion that something nefarious happened with ballot drop boxes.
Trump: "Detroit was so corrupt."
There is no evidence that Detroit was "corrupt" in the 2020 election. In fact, a Republican-led investigation debunked some of Trump allies' false claims about what happened in Detroit, such as their inaccurate assertion that large numbers of ballots were cast in the names of deceased Detroit residents. -
2021-07-12 at 7:42 PM UTCMaking
All
GOP lawyers
Admit they're full of shit
Washington Examiner
Lin Wood distances himself from Michigan election lawsuit in sanctions hearing
Mike Brest
Lin Wood, one of the lawyers who filed several lawsuits alleging massive election fraud following the 2020 election, is distancing himself from one of those suits now that he is facing sanctions.
Pro-Trump attorneys Wood, Sidney Powell, Emily Newman, and Julie Haller all appeared virtually before U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker in a Monday sanctions hearing. The sanctions case, which is being pursued by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the city of Detroit, is to determine whether to impose sanctions on the lawyers for the election lawsuit filed in Michigan.
At multiple times during the hearing, Wood argued that he was not a relevant player in the lawsuit.
“I played absolutely no role in the drafting of the complaint, just to be clear,” he told Parker. “I did not review any of the documents with respect to the complaint. My name was placed on there, but I had no involvement.”
The judge specifically asked Wood if he had given any of the other lawyers who were working on the suit permission to put his name on the document.
“I do not specifically recall being asked about the Michigan complaint, but I had generally indicated to Sidney Powell that if she needed a quote-unquote trial lawyer, I would certainly be willing or available to help her,” he responded, noting that he had offered to help Powell but did so broadly. “Would I have objected to being included by name? I don’t believe so.”
Parker then asked Powell if she had any recollection about whether she had asked Wood if she could add his name to the lawsuit.
“I can’t imagine I would ever put his name on any pleading without understanding that he had given me permission to do that. Might there have been a misunderstanding? It’s certainly possible,” Powell said.
In December, Powell and others sued the state in a lawsuit, King v. Whitmer, asserting that widespread election fraud took place. It was denied in February after the defendants failed to present credible evidence that such irregularities occurred.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, first publicly mentioned the idea of seeking penalties against members of the Trump legal team and their allies who have made “what we believe to be an intentional misrepresentation” of facts in election-related lawsuits during a December phone briefing.
In the months following November's presidential election, Powell and Wood filed dozens of lawsuits, nicknamed the Kraken, alleging voter fraud and a mass conspiracy claiming that Joe Biden was not the legitimate winner. None of the lawsuits ever amounted to anything, and Powell has since been sued for promoting conspiracy theories about two election technology companies.
Biden won the state of Michigan and its 16 electoral votes by more than 154,000 votes. More than 250 countywide audits confirmed the accuracy of the certified results, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced in March. -
2021-07-12 at 9:24 PM UTCONLY THE BEGINNING
CNBC
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg removed as officer of subsidiaries after criminal charges, report says
Dan Mangan
Allen Weisselberg, the long-time CFO of the Trump Organization, has been removed from several subsidiaries of that company owned by former President Donald Trump, according to a report.
The moves came on the heels of criminal tax charges against Weisselberg and the firm.
One of the subsidiaries, Trump Payroll Corp., had listed Weisselberg holding multiple officer positions before both he and Trump Payroll were charged along with the Trump Organization.
Allen Weisselberg, the long-time chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been removed from several subsidiaries of that company owned by former President Donald Trump on the heels of criminal tax charges against Weisselberg and the firm, a new report said Monday.
One of the subsidiaries, Trump Payroll Corp., had listed Weisselberg holding multiple officer positions before both he and Trump Payroll were charged along with the Trump Organization earlier this month by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Citing Florida Department of State business records, the newspaper said Trump's elder son Donald Trump Jr. has taken over officer positions previously held by Weisselberg in Trump Payroll, which handles payroll functions for the Trump Organization.
Weisselberg was also removed as director of the Trump International Golf Club Scotland Limited, the report noted.
Despite his removal from those slots, the 73-year-old CFO is expected to remain at the Trump Organization, according to The Journal.
A Trump Organization spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
Weisselberg, the Trump Organization and Trump Payroll were charged July 1 in a 15-count indictment accused them of a scheme that since 2005 has helped Weisselberg and other executives at the companies avoid taxes on their compensation.
Trump himself is not charged in the case.
Lawyers for the Trump Organization have denied wrongdoing by the firm, and, with Weisselberg, have pleaded not guilty.
The indictment says that Weisselberg and the company devised the scheme to compensate him and other executives in an "off the books" manner, allowing them to receive "substantial portions of their income through indirect and disguised means."
Weisselberg had the rent, utilities and garage expenses for his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side paid for by the Trump Organization, without that compensation being reported to tax authorities, and without paying related taxes, the indictment says. -
2021-07-12 at 9:26 PM UTCmorons
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2021-07-12 at 9:37 PM UTCThe Trumps?
Why, yes...yes they are! -
2021-07-12 at 9:39 PM UTC
August. I will not elaborate. -
2021-07-12 at 9:43 PM UTCLast November.
No need for further elaboration. -
2021-07-12 at 10 PM UTCit aint over till its over
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2021-07-12 at 11:30 PM UTC
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2021-07-12 at 11:39 PM UTC
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2021-07-12 at 11:48 PM UTC
I fucked everyone in this photo.
