Semantics.

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    Moreover, Trump himself on Nov. 14th, 2020, identified Powell as being part of his legal team by tweeting, “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!”‘

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/trumps-denial-that-sidney-powell-was-ever-his-lawyer-prompts-internet-sleuths-to-post-clip-of-giuliani-calling-her-exactly-that/

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    Step 1 - “She was never my attorney.”

    Step 2 - “All our conversations are confidential attorney/client privelege.”

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    Sidney Powell was one of millions and millions of people who thought, and in ever increasing numbers still think, correctly, that the 2020 Presidential Election was RIGGED & STOLLEN, AND OUR COUNTRY IS BEING ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED BECAUSE OF IT!!! MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS. In fact, she would have been conflicted,

    That was a challenging first sentence to read.

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    When he finally ends up in prison where he belongs, he’ll claim he was never Donald Trump.

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    man he’s got such a distinct firehose of words constantly incriminating himself but also trying to cover up incriminating himself. ‘I dont even know this girl, she’s a criminal that’s never worked for me, but her only crime is saying what I’ve been saying this entire time, the election was stolen and I support everything she does, amazing woman, I have nothing to do with her’

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      It’s his Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Everybody slings that term around like it’s widely applicable. It’s not. People that meet the DSM V “rules” are fairly rare. Trump knocks it out the park like no human I’ve ever heard of, let alone met IRL.

      Here’s his thinking on this one:

      • Powell is a bad person because she betrayed me.
      • I don’t hire bad people, or make mistakes at all, ever, therefore she was never my attorney.

      He’s not lying, he truly believes the shit he says. Mom was like this. She would say shit that was demonstrably false, did not matter, she was right. Ever known another human for 50 years and never heard them admit fault, even a tiny, tiny bit? It’s straight freaky.

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        There’s literally deposition in front of lawyers, in various court cases, with Trump being taped, on video, saying “well, if it feels true, then it must be true!”

        One was the Trump University case where he was claiming that it was fine that people who had never even met him were saying they had been personally instructed by Donald Trump, because “if they felt that way, then it was true in a way” and therefore not fraud.

        The other one was him suing a New York Times journalist who had found that Trump was really only worth somewhere between $150 and $250 million. Trump claimed that he was worth more than $2.7 billion and therefore sued for $5 billion.

        In the deposition, Trump claimed his wealth fluctuated and depended on his feelings on any given day.

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        I have the unfortunate experience of knowing people who hit every single characteristic on the list. Lack of empathy, defensiveness, aggressive gibberish, gaslighting, lying, fragile ego, impatience, desire for attention, social media addiction, lack of appreciation, willingness to take advantage of other people while offering them nothing, envy, difficulty interacting with people normally, problems with seeing how others perceive their behavior, hidden insecurity.

        Anyway, he’s such a habitual liar that it doesn’t matter to him whether he really believes something or remembers it to be true. It’s the new story and he’ll stick to it for as long as needed.

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    This is very very bad for Trump because Powell is also a defendant in Jack Smith’s federal case being tried under Judge Chutkan.

    Powell obviously knows that her guilty plea in Georgia can and will be used by Smith in the federal case, so what it basically says is that she’s going to be a cooperating witness (she really has no choice) for Smith as well.

    Powell was there at the infamous December 18th meeting wherein things like shutting down all voting and declaring martial law were allegedly discussed. This in turn means that she can provide convincing and potentially damning evidence as to Trump’s knowledge of and intent with regard to how the election had actually played out, and specifically with regard to his desire to overturn it.

    There’s a lot more to be said about this, but I have to go make dinner.

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    Well, there will be more than enough signed statements and other written communication to prove the contrary, I’m sure.

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      It’s actually better if he sticks to that claim, that means he can’t claim any communications with her were privileged and thus inadmissible.

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        His claims will change to whatever he thinks is most advantageous in the moment.

        If you present evidence of him claiming the contrary he’ll just say he never said that.

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          Works in the media, but you can’t do it in court.

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    Well kids. This is why we pay our co-conspirator’s legal bills. And our own legal bills. And why we listen to advice of counsel. And why we remain loyal to those who are loyal to us.

    Oh yeah, and skipping on the crimes helps as well.

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    Ah, so what you’re saying is that attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply to your communications with her, since she was never your attorney, right?

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        Any discussion of planned or ongoing criminal activity was never covered in the first place. But, just because she flipped, doesn’t mean that any communication outside that wouldn’t be covered. If she was acting as his attorney, that discussion would still be privileged. However, if this statement by Trump pisses her off enough she could possibly use it and throw him under the bus with that information which, even though not directly criminal, could still be damaging to him.

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    Nice try fuck face. You’re literally on TV talking to, about, and with her. Fuck, this guy is insufferable. I’d go to church everyday and pray to whatever God would end his existence* so we don’t have to listen to this shit anyone.

    *not condoning any violence against another human being by a human being; only divine intervention which seems to be a thing people believe in and how it can happen by magic sky daddies