Sidney Powell reportedly fell for QAnon conspiracy theory that claimed then-CIA director was in

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

German custody.

After the 2020 election, ex-Trump attorney and adviser Sidney Powell reportedly tried to enlist a Department of Defense official to help retrieve then-CIA Director Gina Haspel from what Powell believed to be a secret, election-related mission in Germany, ABC News reports, according to journalist Jonathan Karl's new book, Betrayal: Inside the Final Act of the Trump Show. The mission, which was not real, became one of the "most far-fetched claims about the election."

According to Karl, Powell called the senior intelligence official, Ezra Cohen, in the election's aftermath, pushing a "false conspiracy theory that had been gaining steam among QAnon followers."

"Gina Haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in Germany," Powell told Cohen, per Karl. "You need to launch a special operations mission to get her."

The Trump attorney believed Haspel had been injured while completing a secret CIA operation aiming to seize and destroy evidence of vote tampering on an election-related computer server, Karl reports. She thought the CIA was complicit. None of it was true.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-184926516.html

[Ohio Joe]

1. I really want to say 'You can't make this shit up' but...

WTF? What a loon

[Ligyron]

2. And this woman made it through law school and passed the Bar?

You really can’t make this shit up all right.

Does Liberty U. hand out law degrees? Maybe a “close cover before striking”, mail order?

[Progressive Jones]

5. Mental illness takes time to grow. nt

[gulliver]

3. Call me a conspiracy theorist but stories like this help her

She's getting sued and possibly disbarred. It helps her if there are stories saying she actually believed nutty things (as opposed to knowingly saying things that were false and defamatory).

My overly suspicious side is thinking this story could be a plant. Likewise Trump probably doesn't believe he won and doesn't care whether he believes it or not. He knows to act as if he believes it since that shields him legally.

[Me.]

4. Not Buying This For A Second