The witnesses statements that are attached to Powell's Wisconsin election-fraud opus are just .... well, hard to describe.
Exhibit 1 is a recycled declaration from an anonymous Venezuelan who is "of sound mine," but didn't witness anything related to the U.S. election.
Exhibit 17 is a person who thinks it's suspicious that Democrats did better this year in counties where the Republican vote share increased in 2012 and 2016, because obviously that can only go in one direction.
Exhibit 20 is an anonymous guy who used to work for a military intelligence training battalion who seems unaware that Edison Research isn't actually involved in vote-counting. (It's a third-party service that gathers up the results for the public; Reuters uses them.)
Exhibit 22 in Powell's lawsuit is from the guy who until recently ran the official QAnon board, 8kun.
He doesn't actually say that fraud took place in the election, but says it's possible.
Or, possibly, Exhibit 22 is a declaration by the son of Q himself. Or who knows. Definitely by a guy who helped that bananas conspiracy train. gizmodo.com/wait-did-ron-w…
I'm looking for what the complaint calls Exhibit 17, but obviously that's not docketed under exhibit 17, or under any of the numbers close to 17. So the hunt goes on.
Exhibit 25 is from the expert who found suspicious voting trends in Michigan after mistaking it for Minnesota. He has a chart to show that Milwaukee reporting its vote totals was a "statistically unlikely event" because he doesn't seem to know jurisdictions report separately.
He gets his state geography right this time, but the turnout numbers are waaaaay off. (But he doesn't cite a source for these so who knows.) Turnout in Sheboygan Co. was about 90% this year, up from 86% in 2016. There were not more votes than registered voters.
Exhibit 3 in the Wisconsin lawsuit is a survey tally of whether people requested Arizona absentee ballots.
How could anyone - let alone a court - credit the conclusions of witnesses when, by their own testimony, they are based on so many obviously untrue things?
Sidney Powell has filed an amended complaint in her Wisconsin "Kraken" lawsuit, removing @derrickvanorden, who said he was included as a plaintiff without his permission.
There's no explanation for what happened.
They're also trying to fix the emergency TRO motion that the judge said they had screwed up.
Interestingly, Powell & Co. say they should win this case based entirely on "questions of law that may be resolved without factual investigation or determination."
The City of Detroit has responded to Sidney Powell's longshot lawsuit trying to overturn the results of Michigan's presidential election. "A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. Few lawsuits breathe more lies than this one."
Detroit noticed that Powell's complaint cited exhibits and claims that had already been made in a state court case in Michigan, but didn't mention that the judge rejected them and the appellate courts turned them down, too.
Detroit: "Even the Trump campaign lawsuits have avoided the off-the-walls claims included in this lawsuit."
Anyway, after Georgia voting official @GabrielSterling basically implored people to tone down the rhetoric that's leading to violent threats, Trump ally L. Lin Wood says "You listen up, Gabriel. You're not going to sell our votes to China." Trumps ex-lawyer is in the background.
And now they crowd has moved on to a "lock him up" chant for Georgia's Republican governor.
This is insane. There's no other word for it. This isn't planet Earth.
One of the plaintiffs in Sidney Powell's latest election lawsuit says he did not consent to participating in the case. "I learned through social media today that my name was included in a lawsuit without my permission," he said.
Here's Powell's lawsuit describing Derrick Van Orden as one of the plaintiffs. He's also on the caption.
And here's Van Orden saying he was included without permission and that he is "not involved in the lawsuit seeking to overturn the election in Wisconsin."
Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems manager, is just exasperated. "It has all gone too far." A technician in Gwinnett County was told he should be hung for treason. The Secretary of State's wife is getting "sexualized threats."
"It has to stop."
Sterling, a Georgia election official and a Republican: "Mr. President. It looks like you likely lost the state of Georgia. ... Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed."
"These are elections. One of our goals was to make elections boring again. Well guess what, that didn't happen. This is all wrong."
President Trump's lawyers claimed in federal court last week that Wayne County, Mich. actually *didn't* certify its election results (it did). And that because it didn't, Trump's request for a court order preventing the county from certifying is now "moot."
This was in response to a motion from the City of Detroit to strike part of Trump's notice that he was dismissing the case, because it falsely claimed that he had already won. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
This isn't remotely how mootness works. If Wayne Co. hadn't certified its results yet, as Trump's lawyers claim, it would still be possible to get an injunction preventing it from doing so (with a meritorious claim).