Election Challenges, Protests, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral Panics

[GMDino]

(11-20-2020, 09:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Always question a quote when there's a "..." linking two parts to make it look terrible.

The tweet is no longer available.

I don't know who this person is (neither the quoted person or the person making the tweet), what the context is, nor do I have a dog left in this race (Jo Jorgensen was never going to win, so no need for me to get invested in potential recounts) but that's just critical thinking 101. Doubly so when the tweet gets taken down.

Apparently THAT quote wasn't a real one. However....

Sidney Powell was one of Michael Flynn's lawyers.  Currently she on Rudy's team trying to "..." overturn the elections.

https://www.ntd.com/trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-were-getting-ready-to-overturn-election-results-in-multiple-states_528748.html

Quote:Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, a Trump campaign lawyer, suggested in a Sunday interview that there is still more evidence coming out in President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud and irregularities.

“We’re getting ready to overturn election results in multiple states,” Powell said, saying that she has enough evidence of election fraud to launch a widespread criminal investigation. “I don’t make comments without having the evidence to back it up,” she added, saying that elections software switched “millions of votes” from Trump to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Powell notably provided legal counsel to Gen. Michael Flynn in 2019. She was named to Trump’s legal team in the past several days.

The context was her claiming that she and the team had evidence that would...overturn the election results.  

That was five days ago and they have produced nothing.