Even Rudy Giuliani thought her plan to seek blanket immunity, before breaching Georgia voting machines, was āover the top,ā according to a new book by reporters Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman.
As allies of Donald Trump schemed to seize voting machines in swing states after the 2020 election, Sidney Powell proposed issuing preemptive pardonsāwhich the team described as āhunting licensesāāto shield them from legal liability, according to a new book by investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman.
āI need six to eight pardons,ā the former Trump attorney said in a Virginia planning meeting, according to Find Me the Votes, excerpts of which were reviewed by Vanity Fair ahead of its January 30 publication date. āWhat we need is a āhunting licenseā that provides top cover for ops,ā a member of Powellās team wrote to Lin Wood, another Trump lawyer involved in the effort to overturn Joe Bidenās 2020 victory, according to Isikoff and Klaidman.
According to Isikoff and Klaidman, the team asked Michael Trimarco, an associate of Rudy Giulianiās, to get the former New York City mayor to approve the pardon proposal. But Giuliani ādismissed the idea as over the top,ā according to the book. Trimarco apparently agreed, recalling that he thought, āWhat the fuck?ā as the group mulled the idea.
Yeah, that is absolutely a huge part of it. The reinforcement from their ācommunityā is an essential part of how people are radicalized.
(To cite that claim, here is my write-up on the subject with valid citations. My blog has ads turned off and I donāt benefit from it in any way.)
The rationalizing comes in when their beliefs are challenged by other people/other media (or reality checks when QAnan predictions repeatedly fail to come to fruition).