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‘Kraken On Steroids’: Sidney Powell to continue fight to reveal 'voter fraud' after Trump legal team drops her

Powell has made a host of allegations about voter fraud but is yet to provide any evidence for it

A few hours after the Donald Trump campaign said that Sidney Powell “is not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity”, the attorney released a statement, saying she'll "continue to represent #WeThePeople who had their votes for Trump and other Republicans stolen by massive fraud through Dominion and Smartmatic, and we will be filing suit soon.”

Adding further, she wrote: “The chips will fall where they may, and we will defend the foundations of this great Republic. #KrakenOnSteroids”. The Kraken is a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of gigantic size in Scandinavian folklore. These days, the "release the Kraken" phrase denotes to kick someone's a** or to take a dump.

Soon after the statement came out, the phrase started trending on Twitter with many people sharing their views on it. One user said, “So... her Twitter was suspended for 12 hours? Anyone know why... just cause I’m nosy. There’s been a lot of unsubstantiated crap thrown around all over the place and wondering why it would only be her :-)”.

“Who is the “we“ who‘s gonna file? If she doesn’t represent the campaign nor Trump, it‘s gonna be tough to find a plaintiff with standing. Don’t think the GOP will retain her now,” a second user asked. While the third user amusingly responded: “So basically she's going solo grifter. I've seen that someone has already set up an account for her to fleece the rubes for money. (No, I won't link to it.)”.

Her statement came late on Sunday, November 22, after Trump’s legal team members — Rudy Giuliani, attorney for President Trump, and Jenna Ellis, Trump Campaign Senior Legal Adviser and Attorney for President Trump, said: “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 personal capacity.”

Last week, Powell was present at a press conference with Giuliani and Ellis. The 65-year-old was seen standing behind Giuliani as he spoke, “This is representative of our legal team. We’re representing President Trump and we’re representing the Trump campaign. When I finish, Sidney Powell and then Jenna Ellis will follow me. And we will present, in brief, the evidence that we’ve collected over the last, I guess it is two weeks. Also, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing are here with me. There are a lot more lawyers working on this, but I guess we’re the senior lawyers — and Boris Epshteyn.”

After that, Powell -- who represents former national security adviser Michael Flynn in his long-running attempt to unravel a guilty plea for lying about his 2016 contacts with Russia -- said: “We have evidence that this came from Venezuela, from Nicolas Maduro, from Hugo Chavez, from Cuba, and from China which has significant interests in Venezuela. We have no idea how many Democratic officials paid to have the election rigged in their favour. This is a massive, well-coordinated effort. It is the 1775 of our generation and beyond.”

She continued, “There should never be another election - I don’t care even for dog catcher - in this country using machines by Dominion and Smartmatic. The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out.”

A joint statement from top US election security officials have refuted these allegations. “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” the statement said.

Powell has also accused election officials in multiple states of committing election fraud, and in recent days turned on Georgia Governor, Brian Kemp, a Republican who on Friday helped certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state, threatening of a “biblical” lawsuit against him.

Powell also appeared in an interview with Fox News, where she compared her "staggering" statistical evidence and testimony to “the Kraken”. 

Before the press conference, on November 14, POTUS also took to Twitter where he mentioned that Powell was in his legal defense team. “I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS! Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!” Trump tweeted.