Trump laughed at Sidney Powell over ‘crazy’ election conspiracy and compared it to Star Trek, Smith filing says

Donald Trump laughed at his former attorney Sidney Powell over her “crazy” 2020 election conspiracies and compared them to something from Star Trek, according to the new legal filing submitted by special counsel Jack Smith in the former president’s federal election interference case.

New details about the inner workings of Trump’s alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election were revealed in the bombshell document, unsealed on Wednesday, including how even the former president thought Powell had appeared “unhinged” at a now infamous November 2020 press conference.

In the briefing, Powell wildy and falsely claimed voting machines in contested states such as Michigan had been designed using software developed on orders from the deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to steal elections.

Conspiracy theorist Powell was also mocked at the time for saying she was going to “release the Kraken” to prove “president Trump won this election in a landslide.”

“What we are really dealing with here and uncovering more by the day is the massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba and likely China and the interference with our elections here in the United States,” Powell said, accompanied at the podium by Rudy Giuliani.

“The Dominion voting systems, the Smartmatic technology software and the software that goes in other computerized coding systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chávez.”

Though not named in Smith’s legal filing,former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is referred to, citing how the host invited Powell on his show to talk through her evidence in more detail. She never did.

“But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests. Not