Sidney Powell Tells Court That She Was Authorized To Commit Crimes

Sidney Powell is testing out a new legal defense while trying to get the criminal charges against her dismissed. In a filing for dismissal this week, Powell argued that she did the things she was accused of, but said that she was "authorized" to do it so the case should be dismissed. That's actually not a viable reason to have the case dismissed, and instead is something she would have to prove during a criminal trial - and even then it won't save her. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Sidney Powell is trying out a new legal defense in the state of Georgia as she attempts to get the charges against her. Completely dismissed. And this week, Sidney Powell went into court, filed a motion that basically says, yeah, I did the things that you're accusing me of the, the things I've been criminally charged for, but, but I was allowed to do it. In fact, she said she was, quote, authorized to do the things that she was arrested for. I, I, I don't know. Um, no read you part of her filing in just a moment. But think about this for a second. And this is what's funny about all of these Trump co-defendants in Georgia and Trump himself. None of them are denying that they did the things right, like that should be step one in your criminal defense. Like, I didn't do this, I didn't break the law.

But instead, they already know they can't try to claim that. So they have all immediately gone to the, yeah, I did it, but it's totally cool that I did it right. Like I'm, I'm allowed to break the law. Like they've immediately just gone to admitting it, but I'm okay. Like, it's okay if I do it, here's what the filing says. As the state, well knows, Coffey County officials authorized Sullivan Strickler, L L C to image the voting systems in the county on January 7th, 2021. Both the election supervisor for the county, and the board authorized the review. In fact, the election supervisor sent an invitation to another lawyer who was not working with Ms. Powell to have the forensic imaging done. This means that no data was stolen, there was no fraud, and nothing was done without authorization.

So they're saying, you gotta drop the charges because they told us we could come in and do this. Now, here's the problem with this line of defense, and I'm gonna go back to the common analogy that I use of a person robbing the bank. Okay, here it is. Let's assume you want to go in and rob the bank and the president of the bank, the c e o of the bank, whatever it is, the top guy in charge of the bank says, you know what? You can rob my bank. I don't care. Rob us like you, you have my permission to rob the bank. So you're like, oh, sweet. You go in with your big sack with a dollar sign on it, you fill it up with money and you go outside. The cops are still waiting for you. Why? Because it doesn't matter that you had permission to rob the bank. You still robbed the bank. That permission will mean nothing in court because it's still a crime to do the thing. And no one is authorized anywhere in this country,

In any position, at any place, public or private. No one is authorized to authorize you to break the law. You see how that works? So it doesn't matter if you had permission and from whom, and by the way, this is the first I've ever heard about her having permission to do that. You would think that would actually be something she would've brought up, you know, during depositions or during testimony in front of the grand jury. And if she did, in fact have permission and that was verifiable, they likely wouldn't have charged her with this. But here's the problem. Do you know who's in charge of all the elections in the state of Georgia? Including, you know, basically recount efforts, things like that. Forensics. That would be the Secretary of State. So that would've been Brad Raff Berger. If you didn't have Brad Raff Berger's authorization, you're not permitted to go in there, hire an outside company on your own, send them there after hours to copy data off the voting machines. That includes sensitive private data about the voters themselves.

See, so this, this defense is, is quite possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever heard, and that says a lot, especially since we're talking about Sidney Powell, that this might be one of the dumbest things we've ever heard. But this is what desperate people do. She's desperate to get out of the charges, and so she's coming up, or her lawyers are coming up with the dumbest legal arguments possible. Because here's the thing, they're using this not necessarily as their defense, but they're trying to use it to just get all the charges dismissed.