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Thu Sep 21, 2023, 07:45 PM Sep 2023

Lin's Georgia testimony could be bad news for Sidney

BY NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

On Jan. 1, 2021, Lin Wood took to Twitter to reassure the public .... “The tweets about my insanity are at an all time high this morning. Wonder why?” Wood wrote. “No worries. I am fine. The attacks do not concern me.”

In the days leading up to the post, Wood mused about the arrest and execution by firing squad of then Vice President Mike Pence as a last-ditch effort to stave off the Electoral College certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory ...

On Wednesday, a filing by Fulton County prosecutors revealed that Wood is expected to be called as a prosecution’s witness in the state’s RICO trial against Trump and 18 other co-defendants over their efforts to meddle with election results in Georgia. The decision by prosecutors to bring in Wood, a loud proponent of conspiracies about the election, and a supporting character in various plots to meddle with election results, as a witness is likely unwelcome news for several of the defendants ...

In the fallout from Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, Wood has largely escaped being sucked into the orbit of the former president’s legal troubles. That’s not to say there haven’t been consequences, including his voluntary retirement to avoid disbarment, penalties in states where he litigated frivolous election challenges, and a defamation case brought by conspiracy influencer QAnon John ...

In the immediate aftermath of the election, Wood ... quickly honed in on election outcomes in swing states, falsely alleging that the number of people who had voted in Michigan was implausibly high, and promoting conspiratorial videos claiming election workers in Cobb County, Georgia, had shredded Trump ballots ...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/lin-wood-georgia-testimony-sidney-powell-1234829091/

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