Trump considering Sidney Powell as very special counsel to investigate ‘election fraud’

Back on November 23, Donald Trump disowned lawyer Sidney Powell after she went into a prolonged rant about how machines built by Dominion Voting Systems were designed to help ensure that long dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez never lost an election. Powell accused Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger of being involved in a kickback scheme that sold out the vote for cash, and claimed that voting machines were sending information to a server in Germany.

Powell has followed up this session with claims that “dead people voted in massive numbers,” and sought special protection for what she claimed was information from a secret military official code-named “Spyder” (who turned out to be a 40-something IT guy from Dallas who was definitely did not have the intelligence clearing Powell claimed). All of this has resulting in rulings like the one from Michigan, where the state noted that Powell was engaging in “fantastical conspiracy theories” from the “fact-free outer reaches of the Internet.” A federal judge ruled that Powell’s lawsuit was an “amalgamation of theories, conjecture, and speculation.”

Naturally, Trump likes what he sees. And wants to make Powell a special counsel to make nonsense claims about the election from now until infinity.