Even Rudy Giuliani thought her plan to seek blanket immunity, before breaching Georgia voting machines, was ā€œover 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 pardonsā€”which the team described as ā€œhunting licensesā€ā€”to shield them from legal liability, according to a new book by investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman.

ā€œI 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. ā€œWhat we need is a ā€˜hunting licenseā€™ that provides top cover for ops,ā€ a member of Powellā€™s team wrote to Lin Wood, another Trump lawyer involved in the effort to overturn Joe Bidenā€™s 2020 victory, according to Isikoff and Klaidman.

According to Isikoff and Klaidman, the team asked Michael Trimarco, an associate of Rudy Giulianiā€™s, to get the former New York City mayor to approve the pardon proposal. But Giuliani ā€œdismissed the idea as over the top,ā€ according to the book. Trimarco apparently agreed, recalling that he thought, ā€œWhat the fuck?ā€ as the group mulled the idea.

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    11 months ago

    I think they believe the Dems are cheating, so that justifies them cheating as well.

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      even thatā€™s a cover. whatā€™s really at the bottom of everything is that they donā€™t care about right, wrong, legal, illegal, democracy, authoritarianism or any of that. they just want to hurt people, and they know who will let them.

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      Nobody in any position of power actually believes that. Republicans make the accusation in order to poison the well and preempt legitimate Democratic accusations against them.

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        Oh I most certainly agree with that. But their dumb base might actually think that way.