I hate to say I toldyaso, but…. well, {Go Deep}. The Washington Post is writing a story today about federal prosecutors using grand juries to subpoena the financial records of individuals and groups who were associated with the 2020 election audit efforts. The motives here are very predictable.
Remember, when the political agencies under the umbrella of the Fourth Branch of Government (CIA, FBI and DOJ) use their aligned media they follow a particular pattern of using New York Times, Politico and the Washington Post to build the framework of their investigative narratives.
The specifics of this first report surround attorney Sidney Powell and her ‘Defend The Republic‘ organization, one of several individuals and groups who were raising money to support 2020 election audits. The Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, and Patrick Byrne network are under review.
As you review the article it is important to note few key elements: (1) The subpoena document’s were leaked to the Washington Post by someone inside the investigation; that speaks toward the larger motive of the DOJ/FBI effort itself. (2) The specific DOJ prosecutors are the same ones working hand-in-glove with the J6 committee.
WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors have demanded the financial records of multiple fundraising organizations launched by attorney Sidney Powell after the 2020 election as part of a criminal investigation, according to a subpoena reviewed by The Washington Post.
The grand jury subpoena, issued in September by the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia, sought communications and other records related to fundraising and accounting by groups including Defending the Republic, a Texas-based organization claiming 501(c) 4 nonprofit status, and a PAC by the same name, according to the documents and a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of the probe.
As part of the investigation, which has not been previously reported, prosecutors are seeking records going back to Nov. 1, 2020.
The subpoena reviewed by The Post was signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston, who is also handling politically charged matters related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including contempt of Congress charges brought against former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon for refusing to testify in front of the House committee investigating the pro-Trump riot.
[…] Powell was soliciting contributions from Trump supporters to help fund her efforts. She began asking for donations as early as Nov. 10, 2020, a week after the election, telling viewers of the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show on Fox Business that she had started a website called defendingtherepublic.org where they could donate.
Visitors reached a site that requested donations to support her election litigation. “Over $500,000 must be raised in the next twenty-four hours for these suits to be filed. Millions more will need to be raised to ensure victory,” the site stated around that time, according to an archived version.
By Nov. 25, 2020, the day Powell filed the first two of her lawsuits claiming widespread fraud, the website included a large picture of Powell and said her aim was to use the courts to block the certification of Biden’s victory. The website solicited donations for “Sidney Powell’s Legal Defense Fund” and indicated to potential donors that they would be contributing to a 501(c) 4 social welfare organization. Donors were asked to make checks payable to Sidney Powell P.C., Powell’s law firm.
It was not until Dec. 1, 2020, that Defending the Republic was incorporated as a business in Texas, with Powell listed as its agent and director, according to state records. An authorized representative for the group, Brandon Johnson, said in an August deposition taken as part of a defamation lawsuit against Powell that he knew nothing about donations made online before Dec. 1. “I don’t know where they went, but they did not go to Defending the Republic,” Johnson said in the deposition.
It is not clear how much money the organization has raised since it was incorporated or how that money has been spent. Defending the Republic contributed $550,000 to fund a Republican-commissioned review of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast last year in Arizona, according to an accounting released in July by Cyber Ninjas, a contractor that led the review.
Powell, when asked in a July deposition whether her law firm would receive compensation through donations made to Defending the Republic, replied, “I certainly hope we will,” maintaining that her firm had not been paid for bringing election-related lawsuits.
In an estimated budget submitted this summer to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Defending the Republic projected revenue from donations of just over $7 million for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
[…] According to Johnson’s deposition, the group’s directors have included Flynn and Flynn’s brother Joseph Flynn, as well as Patrick Byrne, the millionaire founder of Overstock.com. The Flynn brothers are listed as directors, alongside Powell, in corporate records filed in December 2020. Both brothers, as well as Byrne, have departed their roles, Johnson said in his deposition.
Byrne told The Post he agreed to serve as chief executive of Defending the Republic at Powell’s request in March, but left after only a few weeks in early April, in part because of different management styles and concerns about the business’s financial oversight. He said that he doesn’t know how much Powell had raised and that when he urged a full audit of the organization’s finances, she resisted. Byrne said the Flynn brothers and the executive staff left the organization on the same day he did. He said he hasn’t communicated with Powell since he departed and he has not received a subpoena. (read more)
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services was likely the investigative triggering mechanism as the Powell group was originally looking to stand up a headquarters somewhere in the state. The Florida Agriculture Commissioner is Nikki Fried, the current Democrat opponent to Ron DeSantis in the 2022 governors race.
Interestingly, the Washington Post positions Patrick Byrne as an innocuous player in the story line who has not received a subpoena. However, for those who follow the deep weeds of FBI operations you can see the familiar shadow of a confidential informant; a person in place to participate as an ally yet subversively gathering information for later use.
As CTH previously predicted, there is a point of political merge in the DOJ/FBI motive to investigate two sets of people, The J6 group and the Audit group.
The motives are obvious: (1) tamp down any election integrity measures; (2) demoralize the MAGA or spirited America-First base of opposition against Democrats; (3) put the Republican Party on the defensive; (4) take attention away from the economic mess caused by the current administration; and (5) provide political turmoil in the ranks of their opposition.
The DOJ/FBI will be used for maximum political damage, and as you know, the professional Republican Party stands to gain just as much by this effort as the Democrat Party. Similar to how the GOPe supported the targeting of the Tea Party by the DOJ using the IRS, so too will the GOPe support the targeting of the various support networks behind the audit the election groups; what John McCain called, “the whacko birds.”
Put the J6 investigation and Audit investigation together, and you can see the DNC approach for 2022. (read more)
Unfortunately, this is how a highly political DOJ/FBI operate their targeting mechanisms in this new era of openly visible weaponization.
The Republican silence on the issues of how the DOJ and FBI are weaponized is indicative of their alignment with the targeting motives.
The Fourth Branch of Government will activate against any individual, entity or group who is perceived as a threat.
An informant will always be an informant
Useful snitches are disposable, when they’re no longer useful.
Bulger, Epstein, Maxwell…
What happened to Hunters laptop? After DOJ/FBI involvements with dossier and fisa abuse there should be no question regarding this criminal enterprise.
What ever happened with the True the Vote investigations?
Yes, having the geo location data sounded like full proof evidence. I believe they shared some of their findings with the FBI which could have been their first mistake
FWIW…
“Briefings have been provided to state law enforcement and political leadership in several states.”
“What Comes Next?”
“To date, law enforcement has not taken action.”
“If law enforcement doesn’t initiate investigations, we have plans to release all data, all video, publicly.”
https://www.truethevote.org/the-breitbart-article-true-the-vote-update/
“As Americans are now fully aware – the FBI are the fully controlled federal police force of the communists now occupying DC. What the FSB is to Moscow, so too is the FBI to Washington DC. Deployment of the FBI is determined by the politics of the target.” – – Sundance
Prayers & support for Sidney Powell.
Release the Kraken!
Seems the 4th Branch of government is the most powerful. Things are bleak.
Pretty much everyone here knows we now have a uniparty. I think we may as well admit that we also have only ONE Branch of Government that is made up of the original three branches PLUS the entire Intelligence Community…
We can keep donating, that way the three can claim no one is defrauded because the more the government claims that the more we give.
The real target here is the donor lists so they can name and shame us. Our local paper ran a story naming all the local residents who donated to Trump before the first election.
But I will be damned if I will lose my freedom with a few dollars left in my account I could have used to help fight tyranny.
The terrorists hate us for our freedom.
They announce themselves.
The target is the donor list. THAT is what they are after – the **** needs more doors to break down. If they get to discredit Sidney Powell and demoralized MAGA, even better.
IMHO, whenever a conservative group is involved in fundraising or political activity, it is critical that the organization maintain “airtight” records and should expect to have extreme scrutiny by the current administration appointees. Oversights can happen, but every single regulation must be observed to prevent any agency review. There seems to be extreme desperation by sectors of Congress and other agencies to find something to create a new story from. Since the media has apparently reported that the Russian Hoax and Steele Dossier appear to be fabricated stories, IMHO, the hunt is on to create the next fable for 2022. Is that because the media is predicting a Red Tsunami at that time?
Don’t kid yourself. They get you if they want you.
“I’m trying to save the country…and survive.” – PT
“Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight.
“The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.
“While the enemy is still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault him with another.”
— Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
The other side is acting. If you are not on offense – as a volunteer, precinct chair, election worker, school board candidate, etc, then you are on DEFENSE and can never win.
Block out time to go on OFFENSE and let’s start WINNING!
https://precinctstrategy.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479755.How_to_Run_for_Local_Office
Suppose someone did steal some money (which I put right up there with calling Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist for defending himself against white men.) I’ll worry about that AFTER we take care of those who stole our country!
This obviously is a politically targeted DOJ investigation. If all the targets were Democrats the DOJ wouldn’t give them a second glance. That said I listened to the secret phone recording that Lin Wood made of his call with Pat Byrne it seems like there was some very shady business going on. If they exploited the good will of Trump voters to scam millions then they should be prosecuted and sent to prison.
It doesn’t seem to me that Powell, Flynn et al were at any time working under the auspices of the official Trump campaign but rather as self-appointed freelancers. Did President Trump ever officially endorse them as agents working on his behalf? It seems to me that they always worked at arms length. In my opinion any fundraising to support election audit efforts should have been done either by the Trump campaign or with the explicit approval of the campaign.
So I did some research and it appears that the Trump campaign issued a statement on November 22 disavowing Sidney Powell:
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump legal team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his professional capacity”.
Link > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/politics/sidney-powell-trump.html
After that statement was released by the Trump campaign Sidney Powell should have dropped all fund raising and activities related to auditing the election. Even if her arguments had merit without the approval of President Trump she should have stopped all activities. Instead she continued to raise millions. What was the role of General Flynn in this operation? To pull in the MAGA donors? (he had and still has a big following in the MAGA movement).
If the DOJ uncovers illegal activities and Powell and company get charged this will just be used to tarnish Trump despite the fact that Trump did not endorse their activities and in fact had explicitly disavowed them.
Ever think that Trump’s statement was actually a move to protect Powell, considering all the factions that were going up against Trump. Sometimes looking at things at face value doesn’t show you the motive behind them, I’m not saying that this was Trump’s motive, but it certainly is a feasible option.
I don’t know in what way this would “protect” Powell. When the Presidents campaign releases a statement on official letterhead we have to take the statement at face value – there is no other choice and in November 22, 2020 the Trump campaign – acting on behalf of Trump – issued a statement disavowing Sidney Powell.
After November 22, 2020, Powell had no business continuing to raise millions from loyal and devoted Trump supporters and it appears to me Powell used Flynn to rope in the donors. What else was Flynn’s role? He is not a lawyer.
I know a lot of people on here support Flynn but there are a lot of uncomfortable questions that need to be raised and answered regarding his role in this free-lance fundraising operation that raised millions and accomplished nothing.
My thought was that Trump, by separating himself from Powell, allowed Powell not to be swept up in the judicial witch hunt that surrounded Trump (and, amusingly, now surfaces against Powell herself, recently). That being said, and taking your opinion into account, my question then must be….who benefited? Did Powell personally benefit from the fund she collected or were those funds directed toward the legal activities she was providing? It also appears that you seem to indicate that Trump supporters were actually rather unintelligent, allowing themselves to be duped by Powell and Flynn. In any event, did Powell ‘accomplish nothing’ because of a politicized SCOTUS and globalist intervention? Are there any continuing suits? Did she personally benefit from any of this? I suspect that the answer to the last question is no.
I have followed her work closely, and here’s what I observed … She accomplished a lot, although it was thru her personal dedication. Remember, she was working pro bono to get Flynn out, and she succeeded, shortly before P. Trump pardoned him. She did have donations to help defray costs, but she was the ONLY ONE that found the Brady material that proved that Flynn was set up.
After that was the election, there was confusion on about who was going to get paid, and at that time, people had reason to believe that the many, many millions given thru Winred to the Trump campaign AND the RNC would go to help pay for the work of Rudy, Sidney, Kline, Col. Waldron, etc.
And then the RNC paid exactly NONE of that money out. It was a big mess, and the more she and others investigated, the more methods of fraud were found. And the more those methods were ignored or dismissed by the courts, the more work there was. And more time. It was a significant and staggering amount of evidence to gather, depositions to take, etc, to amass, catalogue, verify, correlate, organize for court presentations, etc.
Then the audits started, and there was AZ, GA, etc. Sidney wanted to have funds for each state where the fraud was obvious, to fund more audits, and I don’t know if she was able to get financial accountants for each one.
The cases she presented were well documented, and voluminous. She was literally working 20 hours/day, and she clearly said that the donations were partially going to pay for her time. And that’s OK.
SO FEW people stepped up to help her, or Deperno, or Kline, or Rudy, or True the Vote, or Garland. And finally, she became very ill.
And IMO, someone should sue Karen Fann for fraud…HARD. She ROBBED patriots like me, for an audit that she KNEW would fail to get the routers & splunk logs. I mean heads on pikes. But that wasn’t Sidney’s fault. Fann isn’t fit to lick Sidneys boots.
More will come out later.
Just in response to your last statement, I don’t know what information or documentation you ave that indicates that the AZ audit ‘failed’. I’m not sure what you were expecting as a result…that the election was going to be decertified??? That was not the original premise. But what the audit DID do was send quite a number of criminal files over to te AZ DA. If you follow Jovan Pulitzer at all, you will see that, while the counting of the ballots is over, the AZ situation is far from over.
Sanctimonious much?? And wh at the hell did YOU do? Anything? Or are you an armchair quarterback?
Soap operas have a lot of drama. Good for ratings.
Fake news needs ratings. They tell you, what they, want you, to know.
“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.” –Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1788
-58% Of Voters Agree: Media Are ‘Enemy of the People’
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/media/58_of_voters_agree_media_are_enemy_of_the_people
Interesting, they are going after people with deep pockets and good lawyers. I don’t think it will work out as well as the deep state thinks
Just shut up about it all and focus! We need to fix 2020 first, then hold those accountable who stole our country. And THEN we can see if there is any truth to these really-conveniently-timed accusations from known liars.
I can’t imagine Sydney misappropriating funds, if for no other reason than knowing she was going to have a YUGE target on her back and she was also fully aware of how corrupt and partisan the FBI/DOJ was going into this
Yes, if anyone knows, she does.
Agree. There is no voting out of this.
We need local sheriff’s to deputize posses and citizen grand juries to arrest these homicidal maniacs/criminals post-haste. Internment camps? Injecting our children and infants like lab rats? People had better wake up and see the big picture. Yes, citizen grand juries and arrests at the local level, then move up from there. Start with these marxist school boards.
The ELECTION FRAUD organizations of the demoCRAP party are panicking as everyone REALIZES that their CRIMINAL ACTIONS STOLE the election. The COVERUP is in full tilt!
So I am to believe that Sidney Powell solicited donations from “Trump” supporters then squired the funds away for her personal use or what ever?
“By Nov. 25, 2020, the day Powell filed the first two of her lawsuits claiming widespread fraud, the website included a large picture of Powell and said her aim was to use the courts to block the certification of Biden’s victory. The website solicited donations for “Sidney Powell’s Legal Defense Fund” and indicated to potential donors that they would be contributing to a 501(c) 4 social welfare organization. Donors were asked to make checks payable to Sidney Powell P.C., Powell’s law firm.
It was not until Dec. 1, 2020, that Defending the Republic was incorporated as a business in Texas, with Powell listed as its agent and director, according to state records. An authorized representative for the group, Brandon Johnson, said in an August deposition taken as part of a defamation lawsuit against Powell that he knew nothing about donations made online before Dec. 1. “I don’t know where they went, but they did not go to Defending the Republic,” Johnson said in the deposition.”
I am supposed to believe that Sidney Powell is THAT clueless, THAT Stupid? The woman who – literally – wrote the book on fblie corruption? Uh Huh.
These departments using their position to intimidate people is so blatant.
They should be made to pay for it out of their own pockets, likewise Mueller investigation, Jan 6 investigation, etc.
They have plenty of money from insider trading.
ANYONE who Stood Up Boldly to Stop the Steal, including Gen Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Rudy Guiliani, Linn Wood, Mike Lindell (My Pillow Guy), Sidney Powell, Ali Alexander, etc. (the list of MAGA & America First supporters and Election Integrity Experts is very long) are in the Democrat Gestapo (FBI/DOJ) crosshairs.
To watch this Purge being rolled out fills me with Disgust and Despair as I realize what a Third World Tin Pot Dictatorship the current resident of the White House has turned Our Government into.
Had Mitch not worked his ass off confirming Garland this would not happen! THANKS MIC\TCH, GRLQND, AS YOU SAID IS “EVEN HANDED, MODERATE”, NOT!
So Trump and America was Byrned again by the Intelligence State RULING America…
Arrest Comey, Brennan and Clapper, then maybe Our “Representatives” are fighting back…
Going against the Marxists in Power will lead to personal destruction, loss of Liberty and Treasure and now apparently destruction of your family can be assumed as well…
Breitbart banned me for one post of President Jefferson’s quote, “Water the Tree of Liberty…
The Intercept is so Left that even Glenn Greenwald, it’s Founder, left it. All Leftists lie.