An attorney leading Trump`s attempt to subvert the election results is a longtime QAnon supporter

Date: 2020-11-20
Author: Tom Porter @PoliticsInsider

Description: Sidney Powell has made groundless claims of a plot to steal reelection from President Donald Trump. It's not the first conspiracy theory she's spread.
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Source: www.businessinsider.com
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1 An attorney leading Trump`s attempt to subvert the election results is a longtime QAnon supporter www.businessinsider.com
2 An attorney leading Trump`s attempt to subvert the election results is a longtime QAnon supporter www.businessinsider.com
3 Sidney Powell, an attorney on the Trump campaign's legal team seeking to subvert the presidential election result, has a history of spreading conspiracy theories. www.businessinsider.com
4 At a wild press conference Thursday, she alleged a vast plot involving the Venezuelan government and the financier George Soros to steal the election from President Donald Trump. www.businessinsider.com
5 At a wild press conference Thursday, she alleged a vast plot involving the Venezuelan government and the financier George Soros to steal the election from President Donald Trump. www.businessinsider.com
6 Even before representing Flynn, she had expressed support for QAnon, which groundlessly alleges that a Satanic cabal of child-abusing Democrats and Hollywood stars secretly manipulates world events. www.businessinsider.com
7 Flynn is one of the heroes of the QAnon movement and has used QAnon slogans and hashtags in an apparent signal of allegiance. www.businessinsider.com
8 Powell has likewise long shared QAnon slogans on social media, making her one of the first high-profile Trump supporters to back the movement. www.businessinsider.com
9 While representing Flynn, Powell pushed the conspiracy theory, in opinion articles and Fox News interviews, that the Mueller investigation was a plot by "deep state" officials to unseat Trump. www.businessinsider.com
10 Alex Kaplan, a researcher in disinformation at the progressive nonprofit Media Matters, noted that in November 2019, a year before her appearance at the Trump campaign press conference, Powell was interviewed on a popular QAnon YouTube channel. www.businessinsider.com
11 Powell is now redeploying the playbook she used to defend Flynn, this time to stir suspicion of the election result that the Trump campaign is pushing to overhaul, in a bid experts think has essentially no chance of success. www.businessinsider.com
12 Powell is now redeploying the playbook she used to defend Flynn, this time to stir suspicion of the election result that the Trump campaign is pushing to overhaul, in a bid experts think has essentially no chance of success. www.businessinsider.com
13 As well her claims Thursday, Powell has claimed some election machines used in US elections were designed specifically to rig election races in Latin America, a claim rebutted by the fact-checking site PolitiFact. www.businessinsider.com