What I do know is that people like Sidney Powell, Gen Mike Flynn, Patrick Byrnes, and Mike Lindell were all invited to the White House to talk about something.
If you speaking of the late night meeting in December. I don't think Mike Lindell was there.
Sidney Powell testified to the Jan 6 Committee about this. Flynn took the 5th.
I don't know if they released the full interview with her, but in the clips we have seen mentioned it wasn't a planned invited meeting, she Flynn and Byrne were let onto the White House Grounds by a young staffer. Byrne I know as talked about this.
Powell said she and her group were alone with Trump for about 15 minutes before other WH staff came in. "Pat Cipollone must have set a land speed record" rushing over there she said.
Discussion of the December 18th meeting in the White House begins on page 65.
Key points
She mentions there were meetings at the White House she was blocked from attending
Seems to be a series of meeting from the 18th -21st some of which she was blocked on.
*There was talk of her being appointed Special Counsel and that was blocked/opposed by WH lawyers.
She mentions she wasn't invited. She and Flynn were going and Byrne "inserted himself" in
Garrett Ziegler let her in
How about Patrick Byrne, how did he get --
He invited himself. He inserted -- he and Emily -- Emily apparently knew
the people that could let us in, and I think that's the first time I met Garrett Ziegler, because she knew Garrett, and there was another young man too. And Patrick invited himself.
She told Trump he could use EO 13848 to get access to the voting machines
She is questioned if she authored EO 13848 and she doesn't remember, but it has things she did write, so she may have written part of it.
She says she is sure she drafted a document of talking points about 13848 and findings of foreign interference that could provide a basis for invoking 13848.
My sense of Lindell was he was an outside funder and promoter of the legal work, but didn't have any official position on Sidney Powell's cases.
That one felt deliberately staged: he goes out for several minutes and fumbles around while cameras with telephoto lenses just manage to get glimpses of his notebook which was open at that time and then he backs back inside?
I agree. I have felt for a while that Lindell has an important role in all of this. He was tasked with making headlines about Dominion and machine voting theft.
That may all be true, but I also feel it was a white hat distraction from something else.
If you speaking of the late night meeting in December. I don't think Mike Lindell was there.
Sidney Powell testified to the Jan 6 Committee about this. Flynn took the 5th. I don't know if they released the full interview with her, but in the clips we have seen mentioned it wasn't a planned invited meeting, she Flynn and Byrne were let onto the White House Grounds by a young staffer. Byrne I know as talked about this.
Powell said she and her group were alone with Trump for about 15 minutes before other WH staff came in. "Pat Cipollone must have set a land speed record" rushing over there she said.
She talked about having the president use EO13848
I wasn't able to find the video of her interview, but they did release the transcript.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000082296/pdf/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000082296.pdf
Discussion of the December 18th meeting in the White House begins on page 65.
Key points
She mentions there were meetings at the White House she was blocked from attending
Seems to be a series of meeting from the 18th -21st some of which she was blocked on.
*There was talk of her being appointed Special Counsel and that was blocked/opposed by WH lawyers.
She mentions she wasn't invited. She and Flynn were going and Byrne "inserted himself" in
Garrett Ziegler let her in
She told Trump he could use EO 13848 to get access to the voting machines
She is questioned if she authored EO 13848 and she doesn't remember, but it has things she did write, so she may have written part of it.
She says she is sure she drafted a document of talking points about 13848 and findings of foreign interference that could provide a basis for invoking 13848.
My sense of Lindell was he was an outside funder and promoter of the legal work, but didn't have any official position on Sidney Powell's cases.
I was thinking of when Lindell came out of the Whitehouse holding some notes that some media cameras caught. Can't remember the details.
That one felt deliberately staged: he goes out for several minutes and fumbles around while cameras with telephoto lenses just manage to get glimpses of his notebook which was open at that time and then he backs back inside?
I agree. I have felt for a while that Lindell has an important role in all of this. He was tasked with making headlines about Dominion and machine voting theft.
That may all be true, but I also feel it was a white hat distraction from something else.