Analysis: Trump finally found someone with a too-crazy conspiracy theory about the 2020 election
“Georgia is probably going to be the first state I’m going to blow up … and Mr. Kemp and the Secretary of State need to go with it because they’re in on the Dominion scam. … Another benefit Dominion was created to reward is what I would call election insurance, that’s why Hugo Chavez had it created in the first place. I also wonder where he got the technology, where it actually came from because I think it’s him or … the CIA.”
OK, OK. So Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican and a man who had adhered himself to Trump throughout his political career, is actually part of a massive fraud involving Dominion, a voting machine company, that somehow has ties to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and/or the CIA?
Man! This thing goes deeper than I thought!
In the wake of Powell’s latest comments, the Trump legal team quickly tried to erase recent history.
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Right. Because of course, Powell was a member of the Trump legal team. Right up until she wasn’t anymore.
Even Trump and Giuliani appear to have some minimum standard of acceptable conspiracy theory — and Powell crossed that line with her allegations about Kemp, Chavez and the CIA. (What a sentence!).
Does this mean that Giuliani, Ellis and the remaining members of Trump’s legal team won’t continue to push baseless junk about how the President actually, somehow, won the election? Of course not! They just won’t be pushing Powell’s particular version of that junk.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this analysis incorrectly stated where Dominion was founded. It was founded in Canada.
