If you haven’t seen the news yet, you will soon. (Because it’s truly big news.)
But Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pled guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.
This is the really big RICO case down in Georgia, which has already had two people plead guilty.
This is just one of many big cases Trump should be really worried about. (Quick recap: he’s about to lose his entire business empire in the New York case; he faces federal prison in the D.C. case for the Jan. 6 insurrection and also federal prison in the stolen documents case in Florida; and in this Georgia case we’re discussing, he doesn’t even have a pardon option if either he or another Republican gets elected in 2024).
But the bigger point I wanted to make is just how fitting it is that Sidney Powell will be the lady that helps put Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump behind bars.
She has already given a video deposition and written a letter of apology, so they have testimony locked down. (Plus, she doesn’t want to go back on her word and spend at least five years in one of the literal worst prisons in America, down in Georgia — also, how fitting that Republicans, who could care less about lawbreakers in jail, face having to live in one of the most horrific places a person can be.)
How horrific you ask? Well, the jail was built to hold up to 1,125 prisoners in 1989, but now occasionally tops 3,000 inmates. It’s bug-infested, dangerous, and has been under a number of federal investigations. Ten inmates have died this year inside that place, with more than “60 having died between 2009 and October 2022, the highest total for any jail in Georgia during that time.”
Yeah, not a fun place to spend five years or more. So I suspect Sidney Powell won’t be the last to agree to a plea deal.
None of which bodes well for Mr. Trump himself.
But let’s get back to Sidney Powell, and how fitting this all is.
How fitting that such an irresponsible, cruel person will now face the backlash from an angry, outraged Trump base. The same folks who threaten the wives of Republican Congressmen will soon turn their venom on Powell. Because Sidney Powell has become the ultimate RINO now.
Sidney Powell, who used to be a federal prosecutor, is a member of the bar (at least for the moment), who completed law school? She knows better…
Donald Trump is a loud buffoon. He doesn’t know history. He doesn’t know military matters (or “more than the Generals”). He barely knows business, given the number of bankruptcies, lawsuits, and fraud charges behind him. Trump is just a dude who got a ton of money handed to him by his father ($413 million in 2018 prices), who was put on a reality TV show, and who bullied a bunch of weak GOP contenders back in 2016 — full confession: I’m embarrassed to say that I used to enjoy watching that TV show.
On the other hand, Sidney Powell knew better. She’s educated. She knows the courts. She knows the laws.
And until she went all in on the crazy, she knew reality.
But in the end, she didn’t listen to other respected attorneys in the White House, GOP, etc. She didn’t listen to Bill Barr, who — like him or not — has a long legal pedigree that is respected.
Instead, Sidney Powell went all in on the craziest conspiracies ever, blaming about everyone that you can blame without a shred of evidence. (The partial list of people bamed by her includes her alleging “that a secret international cabal involving communists, "globalists", George Soros, Hugo Chávez (who died in 2013), the Clinton Foundation, the CIA, and thousands of Democratic and Republican officials — including then-Trump ally and Georgia governor Brian Kemp — used voting machines to transfer millions of votes away from Trump in the 2020 presidential election. And that’s just a quick search on Wikipedia. I’m sure there were more.)
Imagine that… I mean, really. Just imagine it…
An attorney and federal prosecutor, who should know you should not make allegations without substantial evidence — This lady knows the courts. — makes them anyway.
An evangelical Christian, according to this person who used to lunch with her (who also called her Joan of Arc, what?!, somehow completely forgets about half of what’s in the Bible.
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” — Number 9, on the Ten Commandments.
“I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.” — Psalm 119:163.
“Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.” — Psalm 120:2.
It is truly fitting that now Sidney Powell will have to tell the truth about Donald Trump. And she will have to endure the hatred and righteous anger from Trump’s supporters, which she has helped stoke for years.
Sidney Powell helped wreck the lives of hundreds of Trump supporters who marched on Jan. 6, who were misled by her compelling (but false) testimony — and her fairly impressive background (up to that point).
Many of these Trump supporters are dealing with long-lasting consequences: lost jobs, high legal bills, months (or years) behind bars.
And this very loud group of angry Trump supporters will now see Sidney Powell as the Judas — the close disciple to Trump who sold him out for 30 pieces of silver six years of probation.
It is fitting. And it’s going to be horrible.
But probably not as horrific as spending time in that jail.
Love and peace,
Stan R. Mitchell
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Geeeez Stan tell us what you really think about Powell . But you are right on in my view. Care to do a piece on MTG ??